On 2008 Jul 15, at 20:45, Austin Seipp wrote:
For the purpose of experimenting with NDP I went through the
process of getting the GHC head from darcs.haskell.org. As
specified in the developer wiki[1], using darcs get is basically
not possible because there're so many patches. So I downloaded
http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-HEAD-2008-06-06-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2
This alone took over *7 hours* using wget because it could never get
a connection faster than 5kb/s.
FWIW I did manage to get it using darcs (!) having not checked the
wiki to see that it was supposedly impossible these days. (Well, I
did get --partial. --all is a definite mistake.)
I let darcs sit for over another hour and a half trying to pull
patches
from darcs.haskell.org for the libraries and the testsuite.
It never got past packages/base. In fact, it never even got to
*getting* the
patches from the base repository, it sat there, stuck at the
'identifying repository'
stage (darcs 2.0.2) for over an hour, making my processor go round
and round at
99% CPU usage the entire way, never accomplishing anything. What
makes it even stranger
is that it got the latest patches for the testsuite and the array
package pretty quick.
It just got permanently stuck on base for some reason and never went
further.
Mine stopped at array. That said, it does seem really slow; given
your comment about downloading, this sounds like a problem with
darcs.haskell.org in general. But it might be worth grabbing darcs1
for Leopard and trying again.
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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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