[darcs-users] darcs-beta crashes on whatsnew

[Ben Franksen]

Jason Dagit wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Benjamin Franksen
>> Benjamin Franksen wrote:
>> > Note: this is not the version from hackage but one I installed from the
>> > 2.3 branch repo, plus the HTTP <= 4000 patch (which gets used because I
>> > don't have libcurl-dev installed). I'll try the darcs-beta from hackage
>> > next and see if that crashes, too.
>>
>> I did, and it crashes in exactly the same way.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the bug report.
> 
> Since you mention HTTP, do you think that is the problem?

No. I mentioned HTTP only because I upgraded to 4000 and that is not the
version for which darcs-beta was distributed. In fact, there should be no
network activity involved. I think it is the new 'darcs whatsnew' stuff.

Cheers
Ben