[darcs-users] hashed-storage review methodology
Ganesh Sittampalam
ganesh at earth.li
Mon Jan 18 20:56:44 UTC 2010
Hi,
I've just reviewed a couple of patches that were about bumping the
hashed-storage dependency to pick up bugfixes in hashed-storage, so the
actual meat of the review was to check the hashed-storage changes. That's
fine, but I think it's worth noting that in some senses it's a bit
pointless as a gatekeeping act, because if there's a new version of
hashed-storage on hackage, a build of darcs might pick it up anyway
without the dependency bump.
I can't think of any obvious good answer to this, although I guess one
possibility would be to have strict dependencies on the hashed-storage
version. I also don't think it's that big a deal as we can generally trust
Petr to write sane code and to make major version bumps if need be. But it
is a bit messy.
Ganesh
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