[Haskell-cafe] Q: language-c upstream repo (fwd)

[Ivan Zakharyaschev]

Hi, Benedikt!

Thanks for your reply clarifying these things.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 05:59:17 +0000
> From: Benedikt Huber <benedikt.huber at gmail.com>

> the hub.darcs.net repository is a mirror of 
> http://code.haskell.org/language-c (the official upstream) that was created 
> to simplify contributing.
> Conversion to darcs-2 was not straightforward IIRC, and the update of the 
> repository did not work out.That's why code.haskell.org is still darcs-1.

To be able to push to hub.darcs.net, I've done the conversion with "darcs 
convert darcs-2" with the help of the advices from darcs developers -- 
after a "darcs optimize reorder", and the resulting darcs-2 repo had no 
problems with pushing to (a clone of) your darcs-2 repo at hub.darcs.net. 
(Although one thing that still appears strange to me is that some tags 
were lost in my result of the conversion, but not in your darcs-2 repo. 
I've described all this in the previous messages in this thread.)

Anyway, now, this darcs-2 mirror of the upstream code.haskell.org darcs-1 
repo is at http://hub.darcs.net/imz/language-c_hackage

It is "compatible" with your darcs-2 repo at hub.darcs.net, and compared 
to it has 2 extra patches. These are the last two changes in the 
"official upstream" darcs-1 repo (they are from December 2014).

> Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz at altlinux.org> schrieb am So., 20. Dez. 2015 um 
> 16:32 Uhr:

>       I've been interested in hacking language-c library a bit for my needs.
>       (If
>       it turns out useful and successful, I'll tell about it.)
>
>       And I've cloned the repo listed at
>       https://hackage.haskell.org/package/language-c-0.4.7 , namely:
>       http://code.haskell.org/language-c
>
>      Apart from my special hacks, I've also fixed some typos and so on.
>
>       But then I discovered that if I want to publish them on hub.darcs.net
>       , I
>       need a darcs-2 repo, and the initial one which I used for cloning is
>       a darcs-1 repo.
>
>       I could do the conversion to darcs-2, but I read that it is not
>       reproducible: run several times on the same set of patches it will
>       give
>       different results.
>
>       As I've discovered also a language-c repo at hub.darcs.net which looks
>       like an upstream repo: http://hub.darcs.net/visq/language-c , I'm in
>       doubt
>       whether I should continue making my patches against the darcs-1 repo
>       which
>       is said to be upstream at hackage or against
>       http://hub.darcs.net/visq/language-c whichis not officially declared
>       as
>       the upstream but looks more fresh.
>
>      ..if I want to be able to send some of my patches upstream.

Best regards,
Ivan