Hugs' build system

[Malcolm Wallace]

Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> writes:

> >    * I think that Hugs should finally be moved to darcs instead of CVS
> 
> No objection, but I think it takes a bit of extra effort to make the
> history look nice, e.g. check
> 
> 	http://darcs.haskell.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=parsec;a=summary

This is just a matter of which options you give to 'tailor', the
conversion utility.  In particular, you can tell it to use the first
line of the CVS commit message as the name of the darcs patch, with the
remaining lines from CVS as the "long" message in darcs.

The main non-automated issue when converting is the need to create/steal
a darcs-all script, and maybe a utility to fix executable permissions
for fresh checkouts.

Regards,
    Malcolm