2008/10/31 Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 14:33:49 +0100, Salvatore Insalaco wrote:
>> Is it possible to download the new "cabalized" version of darcs, made
>> during the sprint?
>> I would like to test it on Windows (or help testing it).
>
> darcs get http://code.haskell.org/darcs/sprint

I tried to build it today.
With flags -terminfo +http -curl -libwww, it works "out of the box" on windows.
With flags -terminfo -http +curl -libwww and with -optl-lcurldll, and
the binary distribution of windows curl installed, it works with curl
too.

Franchise can't actually build darcs on windows with curl, as there's
no curl-config in Windows binary curl distribution (curl-config
requires sh, as far as I know).

Terminfo can't work on windows, so it should be disabled on this
platform by default. -terminfo +http -curl -libwww could be a good
default under windows (it's the only combination that works "out of
the box").

Static curl compilation is not worth the trouble, in my opinion
(specially with SSL): let's just distribute libcurl.dll and
libssl32.dll and tell the user to put them in the same directory
darcs.exe lives. If we don't want to distribute them, there's a nice
zip on the curl website with those files.

Unfortunately there's something wrong with the sprint branch: it
cannot fetch a patch from the unstable repository in Windows, with
both HTTP and curl:

darcs failed:  Couldn't fetch
`0000001865-fe3d3c7e6a9130fbf39c933683418d7e6887738b978db618bd41e219daceebb'

It works with the bytestring darcs repository.

This is a "report from the field" mail: I will soon follow-up with my
thoughts about windows support and the build issue on that platform.

Salvatore
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