darcs weekly news #39

News and discussions

1. Taylor Campbell brought up the topic of filecache as an optimisation for darcs, which helped Eric Kow pointing to the relevant action, tools and bug tickets:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/021018.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/021022.html

2. Duncan Coutts brought figures about darcs 2.3's poor performance with darcs-1 repositories:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/021062.html

3. Jason Dagit made some experiments by versionning the source code of Linux into darcs, and trying to enhance CPU and memory efficiency of darcs record:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/021076.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1373 Trent W. Buck

• don't use a broken example.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1373

issue1548 Trent W. Buck

• show contents requires at least one argument.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1548

issue1578 Judah Jacobson

• Don't put newlines in the Haskeline prompts.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1578

Patches applied in the last week (28)

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