[darcs-users] EOL for darcs-1 repository format [was: soc final report]

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn zooko at zooko.com
Sun Aug 16 20:27:38 UTC 2009


following-up to my own post

On Sunday,2009-08-16, at 13:27 , Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:

> I still have to support old-fashioned-format repositories.  I don't  
> mind if a future version of darcs adds warnings or requires "i-know- 
> what-im-doing" type override switches, but please let the next  
> version of darcs still have the full ability to use old-fashioned- 
> format repositories.

Note, however, that there is no need to spend precious development  
resources on the *performance* of darcs-1-format repos.  For my uses,  
the performance of such is already abysmal, and if we need better  
performance then we switch that system to hashed-format repos.

Regards,

Zooko


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