darcs weekly news #21

News and discussions

1. Darcs fundraising is already halfway! We have gathered more than $500 on our objective of $1000 to help developers attend the upcoming Haskell Hackaton. Spread the word!

• http://www.darcs.net/donations.html
• http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/84nyi/

2. Support for libwww and curl/wget dropped, darcs now relies only on libcurl or on the Haskell HTTP module:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018147.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018341.html

3. Bertram Felgenhauer submitted a patch that greatly reduces memory usage of `darcs check` and `darcs repair`:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018244.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018252.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1271 Trent W. Buck

• do not install two copies of darcs.pdf.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1271

issue1366 Trent W. Buck

• remove unreachable code for direct ncurses use.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1366

issue1379 Trent W. Buck

• remove libwww support.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1379

Patches applied in the last week (33)

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