On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:24:31PM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
> I would like to find out if any darcs users who build from the source
> are still using ghc 6.6?
>
> If you are such a user, please let me know.
Yep. OpenBSD is still at ghc-6.6.
Ciao,
Kili
--
Trust your brain, not the mach
Yes, it's important for me to be able to use the latest darcs on my
debian stable computers.
David
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Jason Dagit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to find out if any darcs users who build from the source
> are still using ghc 6.6?
>
> If you are
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:32 AM, David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, it's important for me to be able to use the latest darcs on my
> debian stable computers.
Debian is nice in some ways and it's really great that stable lives up
to its name, but I am sad that Debian has such old softwa
> Debian is nice in some ways and it's really great that stable lives up
> to its name, but I am sad that Debian has such old software for so
> long.
Jason,
I know it's frustrating, but please understand where we're coming from.
There are a number of servers that support our research. The impor
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Jason Dagit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Debian is nice in some ways and it's really great that stable lives up
>> to its name, but I am sad that Debian has such old software for so
>> long.
>
> Those two properties are
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Debian is nice in some ways and it's really great that stable lives up
>> to its name, but I am sad that Debian has such old software for so
>> long.
>
> Jason,
>
> I know it's frustrating, but please understand where
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:11:22PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > Thus I think the version/upgrade matrix is handy so we can
> > plan/schedule when it is safe to drop support.
>
> In an ideal world, we just make sure it builds with the latest tools,
> and let the users of stable distros worry abo
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:11:22PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> To my mind, the benefit is negligible, because:
>
> Then we still have OpenBSD users.
>
> means we can't drop GHC 6.6 support. Also, note that Lenny has 6.8,
> and it is scheduled to become stable Real Soon Now.
Ok, it all depen
> Also, note that Lenny has 6.8, and it is scheduled to become stable Real
> Soon Now.
That's irrelevant. Lenny going stable will not cause my servers to
automatically get upgraded.
FWIW, the experimental server is scheduled to switch to lenny in the summer
of 2009. There is no ETA for the prod
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Also, note that Lenny has 6.8, and it is scheduled to become stable Real
>> Soon Now.
>
> That's irrelevant. Lenny going stable will not cause my servers to
> automatically get upgraded.
>
> FWIW, the experimental se
> I wanted to know if anyone who is using distros with 6.6 need to be
> able to build current releases of darcs from source.
If there turns out to be a significant issue with Darcs 1, I need to be
able to build a recent version of Darcs in my Debian stable chroot.
The alternative is to build a st
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I wanted to know if anyone who is using distros with 6.6 need to be
>> able to build current releases of darcs from source.
>
> If there turns out to be a significant issue with Darcs 1, I need to be
> able to build a
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:30:51PM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Also, note that Lenny has 6.8, and it is scheduled to become stable Real
> >> Soon Now.
> >
> > That's irrelevant. Lenny going stable will not cause
> I see. If you're using the darcs 1 binary I would encourage you to
> upgrade. If you meant darcs 1 repository format then I would
> encourage you to consider darcs 1 hashed repository format. You don't
> even have to upgrade the public facing repo. Just 'darcs get --hashed
> ...'.
I mean th
On 2008 Oct 28, at 13:11, Jason Dagit wrote:
So far, the only platforms we need to worry about ghc6.6 on are
OpenBSD and Debian Stale.
Paging Dr. Freud...
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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PR
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:11:53AM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
> Debian is nice in some ways and it's really great that stable lives up
> to its name, but I am sad that Debian has such old software for so
> long. It's this reason that has always forced me to run testing and
> pull packages from
dagit:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I wanted to know if anyone who is using distros with 6.6 need to be
> >> able to build current releases of darcs from source.
> >
> > If there turns out to be a significant issue with Darcs 1, I need to b
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:08:29PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> dagit:
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> I wanted to know if anyone who is using distros with 6.6 need to be
> > >> able to build current releases of darcs from source.
> > >
>
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