Hugs' build system

[Sven Panne]

On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:48, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> I have been trying all day today to persuade either tailor or cvs2darcs
> to do the conversion, and failed miserably.  I believe there is some
> kind of character-encoding problem causing tailor to misinterpret the
> contents of the CVS repo, leading to only 16 patches of history, instead
> of 2393.  Meanwhile cvs2darcs gives me a completely empty darcs repo
> (after a very long time, and lots of warning messages).
>
> Does the Hugs CVS repo contain any strange encoding in commit messages?
> Neither ASCII nor UTF-8 seems to be accepted, whereas Latin-1 is
> accepted but gives incorrect results.

Do you have a log of what you did in detail? I don't have a black belt in 
using tailor or cvs2darcs, but perhaps I have some time in the next few days 
to play around a bit...

Cheers,
   S.