getting complete HEAD repo, darcs issues

[Claus Reinke]

>> 3 which reminds me: darcs-all gets in the way when
>>    working from local repos on windows:
>
> I haven't encountered any issues with darcs-all on Windows, but perhaps I'm just lucky.

here is what happens to me when trying to use darcs-all to
make a local copy of my ghc+corelibs+testsuite+extralibs
repos, with just ghc+corelibs+testsuite for validate:

    $ pwd
    /cygdrive/c/fptools/validate/ghc

    $ cat _darcs/prefs/repos
    c:/fptools/ghc

    $ ./darcs-all --testsuite get
    warning: adding --partial, to override use --complete
    == running darcs get --partial c:/fptools/testsuite
    Invalid repository:  c:/fptools/testsuite
    realdarcs.exe: c:/fptools/testsuite/_darcs/inventory: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such 
file o
    r directory)

    darcs failed: 256 at ./darcs-all line 59.

note that darcs-all uses the wrong path for 'darcs get', which
happens because the conditional path checks are a bit too lax
to work with windows drive letters, or to distinguish them from
protocols in the first place:

    $ diff darcs-all ../darcs-all
    14c14
    < if ($defaultrepo =~ /:/) {
    ---
    > if ($defaultrepo =~ /^\(http:\|ssh:\)/) {
    20c20
    < elsif ($defaultrepo =~ /^\//) {
    ---
    > elsif ($defaultrepo =~ /^\(\/\|[a-zA-Z]:\/\)/) {

with those changes, it works (at least for my local get;-)

    $ ../darcs-all --testsuite get
    warning: adding --partial, to override use --complete
    == running darcs get --partial c:/fptools/ghc/testsuite
    Copying patch 40 of 40... done.
    Applying patch 39 of 39... done.
    Finished getting.
    == running darcs get --partial c:/fptools/ghc/libraries/array
    ..

claus

ps what about this suggestion?

>>1 could the tar-balls at darcs.haskell.org please be split according to repo-collection? that is, 
>>one each for
>>    ghc, corelibs, testsuite, extralibs

i've got ghc+corelibs, and the current organisation would
force me to download another 100M (ghc+corelibs+testsuite),
which is impractical for me, instead of just 10M (testsuite),
which is slow but doable, to get the complete testsuite.