darcs weekly news #9

2009-02-02 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. Enfranchising darcs! An update on the build systems question
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-October/014849.html
2. Darcs hacking sprint in 2 days!
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/Sprints
3. What does it mean to commute? Darcs hackers like to talk about 'commuting' patches all the time. But what does that mean? Jason explains and provides a tiny bit of code for us to play with
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-October/014779.html
4. darcsweb 1.1-rc1 Alberto Bertogli reports a release candidate for darcsweb 1.1, with support for darcs 2 repositories, and syntax highlight support if the pygments module is available
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-October/014784.html
5. First impressions of darcs. A Pythonista named Benjamin tries darcs out for the first time. Here are his likes and dislikes.
   • http://pybites.blogspot.com/2008/10/first-impressions-of-darcs.html
6. Choosing a revision control system. Daniel Carrera compares darcs with Monotone, Mercurial and Bazaar. Daniel finds our "brilliant patch management" to be unique, but what can we learn from the others?
   • http://daniel.carrera.name/2008/10/14/choosing-a-revision-control-system/

Reviewers

• Jason Dagit

New contributors

• Christian Kellermann
• Salvatore Insalaco
• J. Garrett Morris

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue784 Salvatore Insalaco

• fix file handle leak and check for exceptions on process running.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue784

Patches applied in the last week (66)

See text entry for details.