Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: filestore 0.1

2009-01-26 Thread zooko
I wonder if Bulat Ziganshin's FreeARC software could serve as a back- end to the filestore API, and if it did what sort of time and space performance it would have. And if it was good, then I wonder if it could then be used by darcs. :-) Regards, Zooko On Jan 24, 2009, at 17:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trouble installing ghc-6.10.1 on linux

2008-12-06 Thread zooko
Hi there! I have the same problem. The machine is running Ubuntu 7.04 x86. ghc is v6.6 as provided by Ubuntu -- the Ubuntu version number is 6.6-3. The complete cabal-bin command-line, as executed by "make", is: /home/zooko/playground/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/cabal-bin /usr/bin

[Haskell-cafe] hackage feature request: revision control location

2008-10-24 Thread zooko
if any) and the publicly-readable repository for that package (if any). Thanks! Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $10/month ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing li

[Haskell-cafe] darcs upgrade HOWTO (was: poll: how can we help you contribute to darcs?)

2008-08-21 Thread zooko
repositories with darcs-2-format. If someone wants to adapt this message to the darcs wiki I would be grateful. Regards, Zooko http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [darcs-users] [Haskell-cafe] poll: how can we help you contribute to darcs?

2008-08-04 Thread zooko
is written in Haskell: https://haskell.org/bz There might be some interesting advantages that a revision control tool could gain with the use of a good compression tool like that... Regards, Zooko ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org h

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-devel] announcing the darcs 2.0.0 release

2008-04-08 Thread zooko
Hooray for the release of darcs-2! Way to go, David! Regards, Zooko ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-devel] announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3

2008-01-31 Thread zooko
copy of this repository, but it could have been. Regards, Zooko ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [darcs-devel] [Haskell-cafe] Re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3

2008-01-24 Thread zooko
hneier.com/blog/archives/2005/08/new_cryptanalyt.html Regards, Zooko ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-devel] cryptographic hash functions in darcs (re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3)

2008-01-24 Thread zooko
even if someone out there builds a quantum computer without telling us about. Tiger would be faster and safer (although not safe against a quantum computer). SHA-1 is the worst of both worlds -- slow and unsafe. Regards, Zooko ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cryptographic hash functions in darcs (re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3)

2008-01-24 Thread zooko
following-up to my own post: On Jan 24, 2008, at 1:15 PM, zooko wrote: So, let me see if I understand the issues here. ... 2. It would be nice, but isn't currently used, if one could rely on the property that for a given patch id, nobody can come up with another patch that has the

[Haskell-cafe] cryptographic hash functions in darcs (re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3)

2008-01-24 Thread zooko
d might or might not offer security ten or twenty years from now. I must say that option 4 is the worst of the bunch. Except for the implementation difficulty (of which I know little), any other option would provide a better trade-off. Regards, Zooko ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [darcs-devel] [Haskell-cafe] Re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3

2008-01-23 Thread zooko
stand why we need a secure hash function. (If you need a secure hash function, Tiger is probably stronger than, and is 150% as fast as, SHA-1.) Regards, Zooko ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [darcs-devel] [Haskell-cafe] Re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre3

2008-01-23 Thread zooko
some behavior on the part of some malicious actor that darcs tries to prevent, such that the collision-resistance (such as it is) of SHA-1 is necessary to prevent it? Regards, Zooko [1] http://cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html [2] http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_end_to_end

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-devel] announcing darcs 2.0.0pre1, the first prerelease for darcs 2

2007-12-12 Thread zooko
Dear darcs-devel folks: Oh by the way, let me say: "HOORAY!". I suspected that darcs 2 was never going to actually happen, and now I see that it *is* going to happen! Way to go! This breathes new life into the darcs project! Regar

Re: [darcs-users] Re: [Haskell-cafe] fptools in darcs now available

2005-04-30 Thread zooko
leads to the spinning > conflict resolution. > > Commonly seen with files named Makefile and the like. Yes, I believe this is an instance of the same problem. This can be avoided by adding them in differently-named subdirectories in the first place. Regards, Zooko ___

Re: [darcs-users] Re: [Haskell-cafe] fptools in darcs now available

2005-04-30 Thread zooko
at adds "sad", asking if you want that patch. You hit 'n'. Now darcs will show you *only* patches which did not add anything into sad. So you can hit 'a' to get all remaining patches. Regards, Zooko ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [darcs-users] Re: [Haskell-cafe] fptools in darcs now available

2005-04-30 Thread zooko
into any other repo that wants the change. As long as you avoid doppleganger patches, then you guys are worrying about this too much. Darcs will make it relatively easy for you to do it this way, do it that way, or change your mind halfway through and move everything around again. It isn't