2 patches for repository http://darcs.net/screened:

patch 684134a7380f9217159428e7fb17fd56f968e7f4
Author: Ben Franksen <ben.franksen@online.de>
Date:   Wed Jul  7 13:58:39 CEST 2021
  * release/gen-version-info.hs: fix missing check for existence of _darcs

patch 8377c017dd694e4034bc87634773ebc46e14e4a8
Author: Ben Franksen <ben.franksen@online.de>
Date:   Sat Jul 10 09:34:31 CEST 2021
  * re-write of release/gen-version-info.hs

  This simplifies the logic but also replaces the test for existence of _darcs
  with catching all IOExceptions. This makes it more robust in case executing
  darcs fails for some other reason.

Attachments

• patch-preview.txt
• release_gen_version_info_hs_-fix-missing-check-for-existence-of-_darcs.dpatch

Do we ever want to run `gen-version-info` in a non-checkout?
It's run from `release.sh` which makes various other assumptions
that it can run darcs.

The standard situation is `cabal install darcs` inside a fresh clone. 
Here, cabal internally performs an `sdist`, unpacks it in a tmp 
location and then builds that.

> The standard situation is `cabal install darcs` inside a fresh clone.
> Here, cabal internally performs an `sdist`, unpacks it in a tmp
> location and then builds that.

Ah, and it's run from `Setup.hs` too. I missed that.