[darcs-users] preparing a 2.14 release

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

I agree, we should also fix this problem for 2.14, thanks for recalling us :)

I still do not know what we should do about it in little time,
implementing _darcs/conflicts seems to me the best solution but also
just reverting the change would be a good temporary solution until we
get it right.

Guillaume

2017-12-12 16:06 GMT-03:00 Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com>:
> Can we revert the patch that causes issue 2541?  For me, the slowdown
> is a strong enough reason to either compile a 2.10 for linux (which I
> recall is tricky because you have to also install an old ghc) or
> migrate off darcs.  I haven't done either yet because I mostly work on
> OS X and the 2.10 binary is still available.  In any case, I think the
> feature added "look for conflicting files" which makes everything so
> slow is not worth making whatsnew so slow over.
>
> I'm surprised there hasn't been a bigger fuss about this, maybe there
> are no medium sized darcs repos left?
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 6:34 AM, Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> there has been a recent breakage of darcs 2.12 build on stackage, and
>> fixing it would require bumping several dependencies upper bounds,
>> including base.
>>
>> Rather than doing that, I find more economical to prepare a release of
>> Darcs 2.14. For this we need to fix the following:
>>
>> * windows compilation (broken by Ben's encoding changes)
>> * make dependency on graphviz optional (hence the command `darcs show
>> dependencies`) (see http://bugs.darcs.net/patch1626 )
>>
>> There are still bundles to review and tons of bugs to fix, but they
>> are not blockers for a 2.14.0 release.
>>
>> Opinions?
>>
>> Guillaume
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