Hello,
i realized after problems pushing some patches that the darcs version on common-lisp.net is quite old (1.0.2) wrt. the current version 1.0.8. Is it possible to update the installed version, or is there anything speaking against it?
Regards, Julian
On 8/27/06, Julian Stecklina der_julian@web.de wrote:
i realized after problems pushing some patches that the darcs version on common-lisp.net is quite old (1.0.2) wrt. the current version 1.0.8. Is it possible to update the installed version, or is there anything speaking against it?
It is possible. The current situation is that I'm running the Debian package and that it is the most recent Debian package available for stable. Doesn't mean we can't compile our own but I'm pressed for time, as usual. If someone could write a script that untar'd, compiled and installed darcs I would be happy to run that on common-lisp.net and remove the Debian package. Make sure it works with the darcsweb version we have (0.14) or provide an upgrade path for that, too.
Thanks, Erik.
Erik Enge wrote:
On 8/27/06, Julian Stecklina der_julian@web.de wrote:
i realized after problems pushing some patches that the darcs version on common-lisp.net is quite old (1.0.2) wrt. the current version 1.0.8. Is it possible to update the installed version, or is there anything speaking against it?
It is possible. The current situation is that I'm running the Debian package and that it is the most recent Debian package available for stable. Doesn't mean we can't compile our own but I'm pressed for time, as usual. If someone could write a script that untar'd, compiled and installed darcs I would be happy to run that on common-lisp.net and remove the Debian package. Make sure it works with the darcsweb version we have (0.14) or provide an upgrade path for that, too.
Since it is suboptimal to circumvent the packaging system, I would suggest the method described at http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2002/4709.html which explains how to install unstable packages (darcs and darcsweb) in a otherwise stable system.
Building darcs from source involves a lot of dependencies (i.e. a Haskell compiler), but if the method described above is not an option, I guess I can hack a script that builds it.
Regards, Julian
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