Re: [Gtk2hs-devel] moving to darcs repo

[Axel S. <A....@ke...>]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:18 +0100, Gour wrote:
> Dear gtk2hs develeopers,
>=20
> recent problems in providing darcs mirror of CVS repository has made me
> to think about possible switch to darcs-only repo...
>=20
> I have tried t ofix the problem with Lele - author of Tailor - but
> although he provided some patches to tailor to ignore encoding, the
> problem still persists on haskell.org machine.
>=20
> Moreover, in order to provide a darcs mirror, we had to install our own
> local version of python 'cause the one on haskell.org is too old.
>=20
> Besides that, mirror is not in sync 'cause it takes time for committed
> changes to be promoted from dev's machine to anonymous CVS.
>=20
> The justification I find for this step is that darcs is really becoming
> mature enough project capable handling gtk2hs-size project, and recent
> post from Simon Marlow to provide darcs mirror for the fptools project.
>=20
> The rational is very clear - to make it easier for users to get the code
> for testing purposes, as well as for make it easier to contribute
> patches to the repository.
>=20
> For some time we already provided a darcs mirror, and I'm sure Duncan
> can confirm it brought more users to do 'darcs pull' on our mirror.
>=20
> However, 'tailor' script did the job, but, as the own author says: "It
> is meant to become obsolete" =C2=B9
>=20
>=20
> Requirements are already fulfilled - there is 'darcs' already installed
> on the maching (although not very fresh), and besides that, part of the
> 'gtk2hs' site is also there. =C2=B2
>=20
> Some of the 'cons' is that for someone familiar with CVS system, the
> 'darcs' brings some learning curve, but based on my experience - I tried
> with CVS several times (even used some gui tools) and never wrapped my
> hand against it, while seeing & experiencing 'darcs' I was very quickly
> sold out ;)

I for my part am happy to switch to darcs. However, currently Duncan has
quite a lot of changes in his tree and hence we should probably wait
until those changes are in CVS. So maybe after Xmas?

Axel.