darcs weekly news #15

News and discussions

1. Petr Ročkai is working on a new Storage.Hashed module, a cleaner and more performant replacement for SlurpDirectory, hopefully allowing noticeably faster diff-related commands:
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/017280.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/017510.html
2. Buildbots are being adapted as part of the switch to Cabal that will occur in the next major release of darcs:
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/017480.html
3. Using gitit + darcs backend as a new wiki for darcs.net ? Discussion and experiments are going on:
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/017393.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1310 Trent W. Buck

• create merged darcsCommand{add}.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1310

issue1313 Trent W. Buck

• Clickable ToC and xrefs in PDF user manual.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1313

issue1333 Petr Rockai

• Improve "cannot push to current repository" warning.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1333

Patches applied in the last week (22)

See text entry for details.