[darcs-users] Re: darcs issues

[Michael Conrad]

On Tuesday, December 21, 2004 7:31 AM, Neal D. Becker wrote:

> The issues I see are:
>
> 1) Installation on a variety of platforms
>
> In order to really make serious use of darcs where I live and work, I need
> it to work on the platforms we work with.  This includes flavors of
> solaris, windoze (cygwin and native), and linux x86_64.  So far I have
> looked at the x86_64 situation.  I have gotten some helpful advice from
> this list on trying to install ghc on x86_64, but it's not a matter of
just
> doing "yum install", and I haven't yet done it - mainly because I need to
> learn about the ghc build process, which seems to be somewhat unusual.
>
> Well, all I can say is if I'm having some trouble getting darcs going on
> x86_64, I'm certainly not the only one.

So I think a subgoal of the project might be to make a compilable C version
of darcs for each release version.  I gave it a shot a while back but ran
into a continuous stream of compile/link errors.  But, ghc supposedly can do
this... do we have any ghc experts who would like to give this a try?

Also, I'm not sure how much C code would be generated... the darcs
executable is 4MB...

-Mike