[darcs-users] getSymbolicLinkStatus: does not exist

Guillaume Hoffmann guillaumh at gmail.com
Tue May 28 18:38:48 UTC 2013


Hi Ben,

First, since you are aware that we all have little time to dedicate to
darcs, you should try to send shorter, more synthetic mails.

What I recollect from your message, however, is that you point out a
general issue of Robustness with darcs, and I agree with this.

The problems you mention have already been noticed: there's a ticket
open in the bug tracker about the strange filename bug
(http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2061), and I wrote a summer of code
project proposal on http://darcs.net/GSoC about improving the cache
system (which you are free to expand since it has not been chosen this
year).

What happens is that none of these issues seem to be anyone's lowest
hanging fruit. We all lack time, but what we can do is go step by step
towards making these issues easier to solve.

For instance for http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2061, one could start
tackling the issue by looking at where does the error come from (in
the source code), and reporting it on the bug tracker. Then someone
(else) may start thinking that this is an easy issue, and is going to
actually write a fix.

An also, maybe we could add a "Robustness" category to the bug
tracker, for those issues that make darcs seem flaky?


Guillaume


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