Apropos (and not directly related to the patch): how can importing
System.Posix.Files.createLink work on Windows?

1 patch for repository http://darcs.net/screened:

patch 90657a5991d2c040255c9a31c02e50122df630f5
Author: Ben Franksen <benjamin.franksen@helmholtz-berlin.de>
Date:   Thu Jun 25 00:15:07 CEST 2015
  * resolve issue2459: fall back to writing the file if createLink fails

Attachments

• patch-preview.txt
• resolve-issue2459_-fall-back-to-writing-the-file-if-createlink-fails.dpatch
• unnamed

I'm not expert on the topic but we depend on unix-compat when darcs is
built under windows.

2015-06-25 16:25 GMT-03:00 Ben Franksen <bugs@darcs.net>:
>
> New submission from Ben Franksen <benjamin.franksen@helmholtz-berlin.de>:
>
> Apropos (and not directly related to the patch): how can importing
> System.Posix.Files.createLink work on Windows?
>
> 1 patch for repository http://darcs.net/screened:
>
> patch 90657a5991d2c040255c9a31c02e50122df630f5
> Author: Ben Franksen <benjamin.franksen@helmholtz-berlin.de>
> Date:   Thu Jun 25 00:15:07 CEST 2015
>   * resolve issue2459: fall back to writing the file if createLink fails
>
> ----------
> files: patch-preview.txt, resolve-issue2459_-fall-back-to-writing-the-file-if-createlink-fails.dpatch, unnamed
> messages: 18626
> nosy: bf
> status: needs-screening
> title: resolve issue2459: fall back to writing the file if cr...
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Also check out the src/win32 tree in the darcs source - that's how this 
particular case is handled. From memory it does actually do the right 
thing on NTFS.

Ported it to branch 2.10, still not pushed.

1 patch for repository darcs-unstable@darcs.net:releases/branch-2.10:

patch 99c55f7c8b7e114c2f31e8975e78e309a51d3b51
Author: Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Jun 26 15:02:57 ART 2015
  * resolve issue2459: fall back to writing the file if createLink fails
  Manual port of patch by Ben Franksen to branch 2.10.

Attachments

• patch-preview.txt
• resolve-issue2459_-fall-back-to-writing-the-file-if-createlink-fails.dpatch
• unnamed

Now superseded by the bundle that finally resolved issue2400.

The patch has been in screened for while somehow, and it has been
accepted in 2.10 anyway (a different version) so I'm accepting it.