darcs weekly news #5

2009-02-14 This is a back-posting of an older darcs weekly news article from before the creation of blog.darcs.net. I'll be trickling these in to minimise disruption to people's RSS readers

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News and discussions

1. Second pre-release of darcs 2.1.0 (formerly known as 2.0.3) This version of darcs will produce darcs-2 format repositories by default
   • http://www.darcs.net/darcs-2.1.0pre2.tar.gz
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013977.html
2. New issue manager - Thorkil Naur. The darcs team now has an official Issue Manager role. Thorkil will be ensuring that incoming reports are responded to in a timely manner, and that all bugs are eventually moved to a resolved state.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013887.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013920.html
3. Hoogling the darcs source?
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013976.html

Issues resolved in the last week (5)

issue27 David Roundy

• add junk to patch identifiers.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue27

issue53 Eric Kow

• check for windows filename validity in darcs add/mv.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue53

issue805 David Roundy

• make darcs-2 format the default for new repositories.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue805

issue1039 Dmitry Kurochkin

• detect seemingly unrelated repositories when doing push, pull and send.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1039

issue1041 Vlad Dogaru

• Get: if URL is invalid, direcotry is not created (#1041)
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1041

Patches applied in the last week (54)

See text entry for details.

darcs weekly news #4

2009-02-16 This is a back-posting of an older darcs weekly news article from before the creation of blog.darcs.net.

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News and discussions

1. First pre-release of darcs 2.0.3. This version of darcs has some very nice bug fixes on offer. A few more user-friendliness tweaks are planned for the actual release.
   • http://www.darcs.net/darcs-2.0.3pre1.tar.gz
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013839.html
2. Third venue confirmed for darcs hacking sprint, 25-26 October. Brighton, Portland and now Paris are all CONFIRMED. Come hack with us!
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013710.html
3. code.haskell.org upgrades to darcs 2! /usr/bin/darcs is now darcs 2.0.2 on this server. No action is needed on the user's part.
   • http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16419
4. Retiring GHC 6.4. Nobody seems to be using GHC 6.4 to compile darcs after all, so we shall be dropping support for it.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013731.html

Reviewers

Thanks to our patch reviewers for this week for giving David a hand!

• Jason Dagit
• Nathan Gray
• Trent W. Buck

Issues resolved in the last week (6)

issue691 Dmitry Kurochkin

• distinguish between NoArg and ReqArg in defaults parser.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue691

issue709 David Roundy

• avoid adding changes to pending in rmpend when possible.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue709

issue885 David Roundy

• fix patchSetToRepository to work with hashed.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue885

issue1012 David Roundy

• it seems to be fixed by the fix for issue709.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1012

issue1054 Dmitry Kurochkin

• --no-cache option to ignore patch caches.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1054

issue1057 David Roundy

• this was fixed in the previous patch.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1057

Patches applied in the last week (86)

See 2008-09-17 text entry for details

darcs weekly news #3

2009-02-16 This is a back-posting of an older darcs weekly news article from before the creation of blog.darcs.net.

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News and discussions

1. Venues confirmed for the darcs hacking sprint, 25-26 October. Brighton and Portland are CONFIRMED; Paris is likely. Come hack with us!
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013575.html
2. Planning darcs 2.0.3. We have started making steps towards a release for the end of September. Eric thinks we are only a buildbot and couple of bugfixes away from a prerelease.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013516.html
3. Darcs patch theory. Ian Lynagh continues his patch theory research. He has written up a nice explanation and a working prototype of a darcs-like patch theory.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013611.html
   • http://urchin.earth.li/~ian/theory.pdf
   • darcs get http://code.haskell.org/darcs/minidarcs
   • darcs get http://urchin.earth.li/~ian/theory
4. Retiring GHC 6.4. The darcs team would like to know if anybody is still using GHC 6.4 to compile darcs, so that we can focus on later versions (6.6 and 6.8).
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013659.html

Reviewers

Thanks to our patch reviewers for this week for giving David a hand!

• Jason Dagit
• Trent Buck

Issues resolved in the last week (7)

issue844 David Roundy

• darcs doesn't guarantee always to compress patches.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue844

issue924 Eric Kow

• test for QuickCheck2 in disttest
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue924

issue1015 Ganesh Sittampalam

• workaround internal API change on Windows in GHC 6.8.3
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1015

issue1037 Dmitry Kurochkin

• compile with -D_REENTRANT.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1037

issue1049 David Roundy

• undo lazy patch bundle scanning.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1049

issue1050 Eric Kow

• Disable haskeline by default.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1050

issue1063 Eric Kow

• Wrap pwd in cygpath in shell tests.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1063

Patches applied in the last week (72)

See the darcs weekly news #3 email for the full list.

darcs weekly news #2

2009-02-16 This is a back-posting of an older darcs weekly news article from before the creation of blog.darcs.net.

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News and discussions

1. Growing the darcs team: The darcs unstable repository is coming back, with David Roundy as its maintainer. Eric will be taking care of stable and keeping in closely in synch.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013388.html
2. Shiny new IRC logs: Thanks to Moritz Lenz, the #darcs and #darcs-theory IRC channels are now being logged with fancy formatting and search capability
   • http://irclog.perlgeek.de/darcs
   • http://irclog.perlgeek.de/darcs-theory
3. Hacking darcs: Petr Ročkai shares his recent hopes and experiences as a darcs user turned developer. Come share the excitement!
   • http://mornfall.net/blog/hacking_darcs.html

Reviewers

Thanks to our patch reviewers for this week for giving David a hand!

• Jason Dagit
• Nathan Gray
• Eric Kow
• Petr Ročkai

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue966 Dmitry Kurochkin

fix apply_inv_to_matcher_inclusive. http://bugs.darcs.net/issue966

Patches applied in the last week (37)

2008-08-31 David Roundy

• don't show ssh stderr output unless we're passed --debug.
• fix bug in --list-options (tab completion).
• fix bug in makeRelative.

2008-08-30 Ganesh Sittampalam

• add warning to configure about Haskell zlib speed
• make use of Haskell zlib dependent on bytestring
• add option to use Haskell zlib package

2008-08-22 Eric Kow

• Remove unused FileSystem module.
• Add a link to a repository browser for darcs's code.

2008-08-29

• Replace grep invocation by perl code

2008-08-24 David Roundy

• clean up network/get.sh test.
• fix type of withRepository and friends.
• fix recent bug in --list-options.

2008-08-28 Dmitry Kurochkin

• Check for package random on windows, used in Ssh module.
• Debug messages in curl module.

2008-08-28 David Roundy

• TAG working version.

2008-08-27 Dmitry Kurochkin

• Use InclusiveOrExclusive instead of Bool in apply_inv_to_matcher.

2008-08-27 David Roundy

• add more modules to make witnesses.

2008-08-27 Jason Dagit

• updates to Darcs.Patch.Unit for type witnesses

2008-08-27 Dmitry Kurochkin

• Refactor get_matcher and apply_inv_to_matcher functions from Darcs.Match module.
• Resolve issue966: fix apply_inv_to_matcher_inclusive.
• Simplify withCurrentDirectory.

2008-08-27 Jason Dagit

• updates to Sealed.lhs to support type witness refactor in commands
• updates to Ordered.lhs to support type witness refactor in commands
• make Annotate.lhs compile with type witnesses

2008-08-27 David Roundy

• fix type witnesses in Internal.

2008-08-27 Jason Dagit

• updates to Repository.Internal to fix conflicts and support type witness refactor in commands
• fix error in Properties due to new commuteFL
• fix minor type witness compile error with new commuteFL
• fix conflicts with get_extra changes
• improve reporting for bug in get_extra
• Finish refactor of Unrevert as well as making it pass double-unrevert.sh
• add double-unrevert.sh test
• partial type witnesses in Unrevert

2008-08-26 Eric Kow

• More ChangeLog entries since 2.0.2

2008-08-27 David Roundy

• fix bug in defaultrepo.

2008-08-26 Jason Dagit

• fix accidental reversal in tentativelyAddToPending
• minor refator to get_extra improve comments