patch to drop Win32 dep on bytestring

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Sat Oct 4 20:00:57 EDT 2008


On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 00:35 +0100, Thomas Schilling wrote:
> 2008/10/4 Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>:
> > all people who use the ghc-6.10 branch darcs
> > repos deleting their libraries/bytestring repo and getting the new one.
> 
> How is that different from having to call ./darcs-all get?  it's just
> a 'rm -r' more.  I guess the problem would be a confusing error
> message?  In that case, update darcs-all first to give an error if the
> wrong repo is present.  This way the usual darcs pull -a; darcs-all
> pull -a would not give confusing error messages.
> 
> I don't see this as an unusually big pain.  Just my two pence.

If we can agree that it is not too bad to do this then I'd be happy.
It's certainly the simplest option.

Duncan



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