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)

See text entry for details.