Trent W. Buck wrote: > When Darcs 2.3 or higher is available (as in Debian), darcs.pm should > include --max-count 1 in its filtered "darcs changes" calls (that is, in > &darcs_info and &rcs_getctime). For non-trivial repositories, this > will significantly reduce the resource consumption (especially memory) > needed for these operations.
Is there any cheap way that ikiwiki can tell if a new enough darcs is available to use this feature? > You may want to append darcs to the VCS alternatives in Recommends. Done. > You may want to look at filestore[0], the library that gitit[1] uses > to store its wiki source pages in git or darcs. Some effort went into > improving its Darcs backend when it was adopted by wiki.darcs.net. I am skeptical that VCS abstraction libraries can be useful, in particular ikiwiki needs to get pretty deep into how the VCS handles conflicts and conflict resoltion. See also: http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/the_new_portability_nightmare/ -- see shy jo
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