[darcs-users] No HTTP proxy support in Windows darcs

[Petr Rockai]

Salvatore Insalaco <kirby81 at gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So the darcs we get on Windows these days is not built against libcurl, and
>> hence apparently has no proxy support.
Yes, we use the hackage HTTP library by default -- I guess it doesn't provide
proxy support out of the box. It would be nice if someone could look into this,
but I am currently a little stretched.

> I'll write instructions to do that on wiki as soon as possible.
I have brushed up http://wiki.darcs.net/BuildingUnderWindows a little recently,
but I didn't yet have time to actually try it or make it work, so if you could
fix up that page, that'd be great. It may also make sense to move that content
somewhere else, since its discoverability is currently zilch.

Yours,
   Petr.

PS: Anyway, the proper solution is to use Salvatore's darcs.exe -- it comes
with curl and the 2.3.0 binary is as good as 2.3.1 built from source AFAICT --
it should be built against latest hashed-storage.