On 26 March 2012 09:26, Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> wrote:

> how are you going to handle Darcs: According to
> http://wiki.darcs.net/changes%20since%202.5
> the upcoming 2.8 will _not_ support GHC-7.4 officially, and only via
> a .cabal flag, due to unresolved issues with filename encodings.

Right - I found this out myself and turned on the cabal base44 flag.
I haven't had a chance to test it yet but at least it built. :)

If you do that it will supposedly break with unicode filenames in darcs repos. Which are probably rare in practice, but still.