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

[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 network library;  
strace looks an awful lot like my lambdabot when it gets stuck, but  
it's hard to tell because that may just be the thread scheduler.)

(b) it doesn't handle the case where a file is renamed to avoid upper/ 
lowercase issues, on filesystems which treat them the same (Windows,  
OSX).  It should be possible to arrange to not have both on disk at  
the same time.

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