[darcs-users] witnesses and 2.5

[Max Battcher]

On 7/21/2010 1:38, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>
>> The immediate question, of course, is what we should do for 2.5, but I
>> think the arguments above apply at whatever time, the only question is
>> of the relative balance between urgency and risk.
>
> I think this thread has reached consensus that we should enable
> witnesses for the library (only) in 2.5, so I've submitted
> http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1896 and a patch to go with it. Now would be
> a good time to shout if you do object!

One last suggestion for benchmarking (should probably be in 2.5): how 
easy would it be to have cabal build a (second) simple darcs binary that 
uses the library? That way we could benchmark this darcs-lib.exe against 
darcs.exe just in case there are any funny performance regressions.

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