darcs weekly news #45

News and discussions

1. The darcs team is now using roundup as a patch tracker! Eric Kow announced this new feature which now handles all patches send with darcs send:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021957.html

2. Discussion about the formalization of darcs patch theory continued, involving the most prominent darcs theorists around!

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021970.html
   • http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jjacobson/patch-theory/

3. Reinier Lamers submitted a patch enabling storage of textual patch metadata in UTF-8, fixing one of darcs's oldest bugs. Review pending:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-November/022050.html
   • http://bugs.darcs.net/issue64

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1554 Trent W. Buck

• allow opt-out of -threaded (fix ARM builds).
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1554

issue1588 Ganesh Sittampalam

• add --skip-conflicts option
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1588

Patches applied in the last week (21)

See darcs wiki entry for details.