Re: [darcs-devel] [issue498] progress indicators

2007-07-20 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Thanks Zooko, > Progress indicators might seem like a mere "decoration", but they are > actually very important to the user experience, so this is not an > unimportant feature request. I think we all agree that this is very important stuff. You might want to have a look at the related issue7

[darcs-devel] [issue498] progress indicators

2007-07-20 Thread Zooko
New submission from Zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: As per this e-mail message: http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-devel/2007-July/005927.html If darcs is in the process of doing something (in this case fetching metadata from a remote repository), it doesn't do a good enough job of informin

[darcs-devel] Darcs behaviour during apply

2007-07-20 Thread Salvatore Insalaco
As I'm working on the "filesystem on a db file" task, I need some information about how darcs uses the filesystem, to make the most efficient representation. I've read some of the source code, but I have one question for the more experienced hackers: during the apply of a patch, darcs load the who

Re: [darcs-devel] Use System.Directory.copyFile for file copying

2007-07-20 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:27:14 +0200, Salvatore Insalaco wrote: > For the same reason, I think that we should seriously think to switch > to ByteStrings. Isn't Darcs PackedString just a "prerelease" version > of ByteStrings? They have a pretty similar API. And now (in 6.7) > ByteStrings have a >

Re: [darcs-devel] Use System.Directory.copyFile for file copying

2007-07-20 Thread Jason Dagit
On 7/20/07, Salvatore Insalaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2007/7/19, Jason Dagit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to understand why System.Directory.copyFile would be > preferred. Isn't it implemented in Haskell too? Isn't bytestring (or > rather PackedString) IO heavily optimized and on par w

Re: [darcs-devel] Use System.Directory.copyFile for file copying

2007-07-20 Thread Salvatore Insalaco
2007/7/20, Salvatore Insalaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2007/7/19, Jason Dagit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to understand why System.Directory.copyFile would be > preferred. Isn't it implemented in Haskell too? Isn't bytestring (or > rather PackedString) IO heavily optimized and on par with C?

Re: [darcs-devel] Use System.Directory.copyFile for file copying

2007-07-20 Thread Salvatore Insalaco
2007/7/19, Jason Dagit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm trying to understand why System.Directory.copyFile would be preferred. Isn't it implemented in Haskell too? Isn't bytestring (or rather PackedString) IO heavily optimized and on par with C? Even if a performance comparison is the best thing to d