Re: Hugs' build system

On Sunday 25 February 2007 18:12, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Ross Paterson <[email protected]> writes:
> > >    * I think that Hugs should finally be moved to darcs instead of CVS
> >
> > No objection, but I think it takes a bit of extra effort to make the
> > history look nice, e.g. check
> >
> > 	http://darcs.haskell.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=parsec;a=summary
>
> This is just a matter of which options you give to 'tailor', the
> conversion utility.  In particular, you can tell it to use the first
> line of the CVS commit message as the name of the darcs patch, with the
> remaining lines from CVS as the "long" message in darcs.

It would be very nice if you could do that conversion for the Hugs repository. 
I think that http://darcs.haskell.org/hugs98 will be the right place. The 
only thing is: Is "98" a good suffix when we will move to Haskell'? Hmmm... 
Anyway, having a darcs repository soon would be great.

> The main non-automated issue when converting is the need to create/steal
> a darcs-all script, and maybe a utility to fix executable permissions
> for fresh checkouts.

I can do this after the conversion. Furthermore, I think that we can (and 
should) have a unified version of these scripts for GHC, Hugs and nhc98.

Cheers,
   S.