[darcs-users] GHC 6.8?

Sittampalam, Ganesh ganesh.sittampalam at credit-suisse.com
Wed Mar 17 13:38:17 UTC 2010


Eric Kow wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 15:01:59 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
>> But darcs is version control - people's data is at stake.
>> We need not only the ability to reconstruct our data with some
>> time-consuming process; we need the ability for our data to be
>> actively and conveniently accessible on all platforms that are in
>> active use.
> 
> So, if I could shape that into a sort of question: under what
> circumstances would Debian stable users need to *compile* (as opposed
> to fetching a binary) *new* versions of Darcs?  
> 
> For the new bit, I think it would be if we were ever to release a
> version of Darcs that fixed some crucial bug (say a pending patch
> issue).  
> 
> For the compile bit, could we get away with some sort of backport
> that people could install? 

We'd have to build that ourselves (or commit to doing so if needed) on
all Debian architectures that support GHC, if so. I think that could be
painful.

Ganesh

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