darcs weekly news #14

News and discussions

1. Darcs backend for Gitit. Have a wiki? Thanks to Gwern Branwern, you can now store the it in a darcs repository, change history and all.
   • http://bugs.darcs.net/msg7114
   • darcs get filestore from http://johnmacfarlane.net/repos/filestore
2. Darcs 2.2.0 released, with better Windows support, performance and libdarcs. Release Manager Petr Ročkai has done a great job smoothly rolling out this release. More news on 2.2.1 shortly.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/017233.html
3. Patch-tag.com . Thomas Hartman has announced patch-tag.com, a darcs hosting site built on top of a Haskell stack. Patch-tag is free for open source projects. For private repositories, free trial hosting is available until April 2009 (prices to be announced soon).
   • http://patch-tag.com
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/017323.html

The backlog

Things you have missed since the last darcs weekly news

1. zlib plans - Ganesh Sittampalam and Petr Ročkai have worked out "roadmap for migrating darcs over to the Haskell zlib library and dropping the direct C bindings completely" and fixing the any broken CRC errors in the process
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/016276.html
2. Benchmark results. Here are the recent results from the Standard Darcs Benchmarks. Thanks also to Nathan Gray for additional real world testing. What can /you/ do to make darcs faster?
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-December/016798.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-December/016892.html
   • darcs get http://code.haskell.org/darcs/darcs-benchmark
3. Thorkil Naur (Issue Manager) has outlined some thoughts for running the darcs issue tracker efficiently. Thanks, Thorkil!
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/BugTrackerIssueManagement
4. HLint report for darcs. Neil Mitchell has set his HLint tool to work, producing lots of helpful advice to improve our coding style. Try HLint today!
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-December/016671.html
   • http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/hlint/
5. TortoiseDarcs is back! Kari Hoijarvi has dusted off the TortoiseDarcs (a Windows GUI). His new version (2.0.1) works with both darcs 1 and 2.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/016983.html
   • http://datafed.net/darcs/
6. vc-darcs.el version 1.9. Juliusz Chroboczek has released version 1.9 of vc-darcs, with support for Emacs 22 and darcs 2
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/016978.html
   • darcs get http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/repos/vc-darcs/
7. Focal: towards a conflict-free revision control system. Jean-Philippe Bernardy and students propose a new theory of patches with no conflicting patches! Instead, the internal representation for state is carefully chosen so that conflicting situations can co-exist. They have also produced a toy implementation that you can play with
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/016988.html
   • http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bernardy/focal_Code_Anders_Petter.tar.gz
   • http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bernardy/AConcflictFreeVersionControlSystem.pdf

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1292 Judah Jacobson

• re-encode line input from the Haskeline backend.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1292

Patches applied in the last week (16)

See text entry for details.