[darcs-users] ANNOUNCE: darcs 2.5.2

[John Chu]

> I know I've waited a while to ask this, but does anyone have a 2.5.2 binary for Mac OS X?

I built darcs 2.5.2 for OS X Lion via cabal. I don't think it uses any shared libraries that don't come with the OS.  otool didn't come up with anything outside of /usr/lib. It likely runs on any Mac running OS X Lion. (I have no way to confirm this though.)

How I use darcs day-to-day doesn't really stress it. i.e., if there is any OSX specific quirkiness, I'm not doing the sorts of things that would find it. Still, if there's some place I can upload it to get it onto the web site, let me know.

> (I can only conclude that not many other people on OS X use darcs?)

Or we're all building it from source. The easiest way is probably to install Haskell Platform first, then let cabal build it for you.
(That said, either OS X comes with git and subversion preinstalled, or they are installed when you install XCode. By default, XCode 4 creates a git repository when you create a new project. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the OS X folk who version control their work use git.)

john