[darcs-users] About the 2.2.0 release.

[Trent W. Buck]

Petr Rockai <me at mornfall.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I need a little help before I can officially announce 2.2.0. The tarballs are
> ready (http://repos.mornfall.net/darcs/darcs-2.2.0.tar.gz and
> http://repos.mornfall.net/darcs/darcs-2.2.0_cabal.tar.gz and also, 2.2.0 is on
> hackage now).
>
> It turned out that the autoconf-based tarball does not build with
> QuickCheck-1.2 installed, for whatever reason, so that needs to be explained in
> release notes somehow. Since I don't have the slightest clue why this is the
> case, I'd like to ask someone (Trent?) to give a short blurb for the
> announcement that will explain people what to about QuickCheck to be able to
> build darcs.
>
> Please note that the branch includes this patch:
>
> Sat Jan 10 03:00:08 CET 2009  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
>   * Resolve issue1307: allow QuickCheck-less build.
>
> I haven't experienced the problem, but at least gour on IRC reported this:
>
> [gour at nitai darcs-2.2.0] make
> [ghc] stringify
> test -f src/Context.hs || echo unknown | ./stringify Context context > src/Context.hs
> perl release/determine_release_state.pl 2.2.0
> 2.2.0 (release)
> [ghc] .depend
>  
> on the commandline:
>     Warning: -optdep-f is deprecated: Use -dep-makefile instead
>  
> src/unit.lhs:58:7:
>     Could not find module `Test.QuickCheck':
>       it is a member of package QuickCheck-1.2.0.0, which is hidden
> make: *** [.depend] Error 1

This should not happen, because src/unit.lhs should never be compiled if
./configure does not detect Test.QuickCheck.Test (which is not in
QuickCheck 1.x).

I will make this a priority for me to look into today.