darcs weekly news #18

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.2.1 has been released, with most changes affecting the user manual and the interface:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017834.html
• Changelog: http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017528.html

2. Gorsvet 0.1 has been released by Petr Rockai. Gorsvet is an alternative read-only client for darcs based on hashed-storage and darcslib, that enables noticeably faster whatsnew and diff commands by using an optimised repository format:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017822.html

3. More discussion about the upcoming Google Summer Of Code:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017865.html
• http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/GoogleSummerOfCode

4. First darcs fundraising! We aim to raise 1000$ to help people pay for travel to the sprint (Utrecht, 17-19 April):

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017816.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1361 Reinier Lamers

• specify required includes for curl in cabal file
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1361

Patches applied in the last week (12)

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darcs weekly news #17

News and discussions

1. The second darcs hacking sprint is confirmed: 17-19 April, Utrecht!

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017769.html

2. Discussions are going on about a submission for Google Summer of Code 2009. Hashed-storage ? Patch GUI ?

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017766.html

3. Darcs 2.2.1 was not released this week. A discussion ensued about the minor version releases and whether they should be done anyway:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017736.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1347 Dave Love

• Check for unsafeMMapFile if mmap use enabled.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1347

Patches applied in the last week (16)

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darcs weekly news #16

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.2.1 should be released next week. Petr Rockai has put online the first release candidate:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017528.html
• http://repos.mornfall.net/darcs/darcs-2.2.1rc1.tar.gz

2. As part of work to make darcs rely more on external haskell modules, Judah Jacobson's Haskeline patches are being examinated and discussed:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017563.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017667.html

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (15)

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