Re: Version control systems

2008-08-06 Thread Thomas Schilling
On 6 Aug 2008, at 12:35, Samuel Tardieu wrote: "Simon" == Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Simon> We already have an up-to-date git mirror thanks to Thomas Simon> Schilling: Simon>git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git Simon> (notice how fast that is :-) It would be even mu

IRC meeting

2008-08-06 Thread Simon Marlow
IRC Meeting today at 1600 UK time as usual (1500 UTC, 0800 PDT, 1100 EDT). A couple of suggestions for topics; - HEAD stability (re previous disccusion on cvs-ghc) - mechanics of the git switchover Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-06 Thread Simon Marlow
Ian Lynagh wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:44:35PM +0200, Felix Martini wrote: and Windows support is less of an issue: git appears to work reasonably well on Windows these days. Congratulations on the switch, but isn't the decision a bit premature? I have read the log of last week's GHC mee

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-06 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:44:35PM +0200, Felix Martini wrote: > > and Windows support is less of an issue: git appears to work reasonably > > well on Windows these days. > > Congratulations on the switch, but isn't the decision a bit premature? > I have read the log of last week's GHC meeting on

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-06 Thread Samuel Tardieu
> "Simon" == Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Simon> We already have an up-to-date git mirror thanks to Thomas Simon> Schilling: Simon>git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git Simon> (notice how fast that is :-) It would be even much faster if you (Thomas?) setup a git server.

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-06 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:31 +0100, Max Bolingbroke wrote: > 2008/8/6 Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:12 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > >> marlowsd: > >> > Following lots of useful discussion and evaluation of the available DVCSs > >> > out there, the GHC team have made

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-06 Thread Felix Martini
> and Windows support is less of an issue: git appears to work reasonably well > on Windows these days. Congratulations on the switch, but isn't the decision a bit premature? I have read the log of last week's GHC meeting on IRC and nobody seemed to know if Git runs well on Windows with a large p

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-06 Thread Max Bolingbroke
2008/8/6 Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:12 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: >> marlowsd: >> > Following lots of useful discussion and evaluation of the available DVCSs >> > out there, the GHC team have made a decision: we're going to switch to git. >> >> Hooray, this will ge

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-06 Thread Max Bolingbroke
2008/8/6 david48 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > cat: _darcs/prefs/defaultrepo: No such file or directory > Couldn't work out defaultrepo at ./darcs-all line 27. You can't yet build from the Git repo, alas. I've added the necessary patches and scripts (you need sync-all, not darcs-all) to http://hackage.ha

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell garbage collector notes?

2008-08-06 Thread Bayley, Alistair
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Galchin, Vasili > > Is > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GarbageCollectorNotes > a reliable source of info on the ghc garbage collector? Depends which version of GHC... the next release (6.10) will include the ne

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-06 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:12 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > marlowsd: > > Following lots of useful discussion and evaluation of the available DVCSs > > out there, the GHC team have made a decision: we're going to switch to git. > > Hooray, this will generate a lot of open source good will, and help m

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-06 Thread david48
Simon Marlow gmail.com> writes: Hello, This is how I get on : $ git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git ok, and fast ! $ cd ghc $ sh boot Looks like you're missing libraries/utils/hsc2hs. Maybe you haven't done './darcs-all get'? $ ./darcs-all get cat: _darcs/prefs/defaultrepo: No such

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-06 Thread Simon Marlow
Alexander Dunlap wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (notice how fast that is :-) git clone has gone about 45 minutes so far without finishing...is that an improvement over darcs? I think http is still bandwidth-throttled on darcs.haskell.org. You