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

2008-08-06 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Aug 6, at 2:02, Ketil Malde wrote: Ben Franksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Can I convert my working repos to darcs-2? No. You cannot push or pull between darcs-2 format repos and darcs-1 or hashed format repos. This might not be optimal but is understandable, since the theory

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

2008-08-05 Thread Ketil Malde
Ben Franksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Can I convert my working repos to darcs-2? > No. You cannot push or pull between darcs-2 format repos and darcs-1 or > hashed format repos. This might not be optimal but is understandable, since > the theory underlying the darcs-2 repository format is

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

2008-08-05 Thread Adrian Hey
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: (Hm, I feel a blog rant coming on.) I take it you mean as the perfect example of how to kill off interest in your own project :-) I can't help thinking this was so obviously going to happen that it must have been Davids intent at the time he wrote that announceme

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

2008-08-05 Thread Ben Franksen
Ketil Malde wrote: > The consequences of moving to the darcs-2 format are a bit unclear to > me. For instance, I'd like to keep my main (export) repo in darcs-1 > format, in order to make it as accessible as possible (Ubuntu still > ships with darcs-1.0.9, and that's a fairly cutting edge > distrib

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

2008-08-03 Thread John Goerzen
Andrew Coppin wrote: > Trent W. Buck wrote: >> I don't know why, but a lot of people I spoke to seemed to have that >> impression, and I essentially had to wave changelogs under their face to >> convince them that darcs was still being worked on *at all*. I had to >> point out that it was a *relea

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

2008-08-03 Thread John Goerzen
Ashley Moran wrote: > On Aug 03, 2008, at 3:36 pm, David Bremner wrote: > >> I think this view is probably coloured by your background in web >> development. I have used git for about a year now, and never visited >> GitHub. I'm not saying you have to like git, but it does have other >> features

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

2008-08-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Aug 03, 2008, at 5:36 pm, Ketil Malde wrote: >> Seems I needed a newer darcs - the one shipped with Ubuntu is 1.0.9, >> which appears to be too old, and it works when I build a new 2.0.2 >> from the tarball. (Anybody with write access to the front page

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

2008-08-03 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Aug 3, at 19:16, Ben Franksen wrote: The naive way to emulate your split feature would be to create a branch where you delete all the stuff you don't want and then maybe move the subproject to a new directory (nearer the top-level). This doesn't work, however, at least not in pract

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

2008-08-03 Thread Ben Franksen
Luke Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> "I would contribute to darcs if only..." >> > > I haven't used darcs much, so it's possible that I'll be forced to start > contributing by my own binding hypothetical. > > I would contribute to darcs

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

2008-08-03 Thread Jason Dagit
I've been lurking on this thread, collecting the valuable feedback. Thanks all. On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008 Aug 3, at 5:35, Andrew Coppin wrote: > > Well Darcs already does that. So... what's to develop? It's not like it's >>

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

2008-08-03 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Aug 3, at 5:35, Andrew Coppin wrote: Well Darcs already does that. So... what's to develop? It's not like it's slow or buggy. I Oh, two more under "buggy": (a) as mentioned by others, the ghc repos often cause darcs2 to spin without doing anything. (This may secretly be the netwo

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

2008-08-03 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Aug 3, at 5:35, Andrew Coppin wrote: Well Darcs already does that. So... what's to develop? It's not like it's slow or buggy. I slow: see ghc moving away from darcs. once you reach a certain number of patches, it becomes *very* slow --- even with darcs 2's speedups. buggy: t

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

2008-08-03 Thread Austin Seipp
Excerpts from Andrew Coppin's message of Sun Aug 03 04:35:32 -0500 2008: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but... I was under the impression that Darcs is > a revision control system. It controls revisions. > > Well Darcs already does that. So... what's to develop? It's not like > it's slow or buggy. I

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

2008-08-03 Thread Andrew Coppin
Trent W. Buck wrote: I don't know why, but a lot of people I spoke to seemed to have that impression, and I essentially had to wave changelogs under their face to convince them that darcs was still being worked on *at all*. I had to point out that it was a *release* announcement -- how could a d

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

2008-08-03 Thread Ashley Moran
On Aug 03, 2008, at 5:36 pm, Ketil Malde wrote: Seems I needed a newer darcs - the one shipped with Ubuntu is 1.0.9, which appears to be too old, and it works when I build a new 2.0.2 from the tarball. (Anybody with write access to the front page who can make a note of minimum version required

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

2008-08-03 Thread Ketil Malde
Gwern Branwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just darcs get http://darcs.net, so I would guess it was either temporary > or a problem on your end. Seems I needed a newer darcs - the one shipped with Ubuntu is 1.0.9, which appears to be too old, and it works when I build a new 2.0.2 from the tar

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

2008-08-03 Thread Ashley Moran
On Aug 03, 2008, at 3:36 pm, David Bremner wrote: I think this view is probably coloured by your background in web development. I have used git for about a year now, and never visited GitHub. I'm not saying you have to like git, but it does have other features other than a snazzy web site. H

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

2008-08-03 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.08.03 16:26:32 +0200, Ketil Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled 0.7K characters: > "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> "Neil Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>> The darcs 2.0 announcement read like an obituary > > >> I don't know why, but a lot of people

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

2008-08-03 Thread David Bremner
At Sun, 3 Aug 2008 12:23:21 +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: > > GitHub is responsible for git's popularity. Git is so popular not > because it's the best, but because it has the best Web 2.0 site. I > work primarily in web development and it did occur to me to have a > stab at darcshub, but I didn't

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

2008-08-03 Thread Ketil Malde
"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Neil Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> The darcs 2.0 announcement read like an obituary >> I don't know why, but a lot of people I spoke to seemed to have that >> impression, and I essentially had to wave changelogs under their >

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

2008-08-03 Thread Ashley Moran
On Aug 03, 2008, at 12:53 pm, Lele Gaifax wrote: I fail to see what's so cool with GitHub: a quick overview didn't reveal anything that couldn't be done with, say, Trac+Darcs. Can you elaborate on that? Hi Lele It probably doesn't do anything you couldn't in Trac+darcs. But that's not the

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

2008-08-03 Thread Ashley Moran
Sorry for the duplication, I'm now on the haskell-cafe list and wanted to track the other half of this thread. On Aug 03, 2008, at 8:36 am, Don Stewart wrote: And all this delay while the git juggernaut takes over the internet. That's the biggest tragedy. It's the same disappointment I h

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

2008-08-03 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Aug 3, at 1:17, Trent W. Buck wrote: "Neil Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The darcs 2.0 announcement read like an obituary I don't know why, but a lot of people I spoke to seemed to have that impression, and I essentially had to wave changelogs under their face to That wou

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

2008-08-03 Thread Don Stewart
trentbuck: > "Neil Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The darcs 2.0 announcement read like an obituary > > I don't know why, but a lot of people I spoke to seemed to have that > impression, and I essentially had to wave changelogs under their face to > convince them that darcs was still bei

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

2008-08-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
"Neil Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The darcs 2.0 announcement read like an obituary I don't know why, but a lot of people I spoke to seemed to have that impression, and I essentially had to wave changelogs under their face to convince them that darcs was still being worked on *at all*.