[tahoe-dev] Removing the dependency on GHC

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Zooko,

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko at zooko.com>
writes:

> These are needed only for one specific thing: to generate a version  
> number based on revision control history and write that version  
> number down into src/allmydata/_version.py. When we distribute  
> tarballs (http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe-lafs/tarballs/?C=M;O=D )  
> we include that src/allmydata/_version.py in the tarball so that  
> people building from that tarball do not require darcs. Darcsver  
> automatically falls back to using the pre-generated _version.py file  
> if it can't execute darcs when it runs.

Indeed, I had been overzealous in adding Darcs as a build input of
Darcsver.  Removing it solves the problem.

Thanks!

Ludo’.