[darcs-users] [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: darcs 2.5 beta 3

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 04:11:45 UTC 2010


On 17 August 2010 12:23, Jens Petersen <petersen at haskell.org> wrote:
> Thanks for releasing the betas. :)
>
> I checked that
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/darcs-beta/2.4.98.3/darcs-beta-2.4.98.3.tar.gz
> and
> http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.4.98.3.tar.gz
> again seem to be identical for all purposes and yet actually different tarballs.

Well, they're calling it darcs-beta on Hackage to denote that it's a
beta, and so the tarball name has to be the same...

> The same was true for darcs-beta-2.4.98.2. :)
> I may be missing something but wouldn't it be less confusing and simpler
> just to have now one single unique tarball (ie darcs-beta-2.4.98.3.tar.gz)?
> You could still rename the tarball to darcs-2.4.98.3.tar.gz for
> darcs.net if you wish... :)

Isn't that what they're doing?

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