patch to drop Win32 dep on bytestring

[Ian Lynagh]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 12:35:36AM +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.

The main difference is that if you forget to update a repo then rather
than a fairly obvious "no such directory $repo" when you try to build,
you'll either get conflicts or, I suspect more likely, a darcs
exponential merge when pulling.


Thanks
Ian