darcs weekly news #49

News and discussions

1. Reinier Lamers announced the release schedule of darcs 2.4 (freeze: December 31st, release: January 30th):

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-December/022597.html

2. Eric Kow asked the team to contribute benchmarks showing the performance improvements of the next stable version:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-December/022599.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-December/022631.html

3. Ganesh Sittampalam summed up his work in progress regarding versions 2.4 and 2.5:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-December/022603.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1362 Joachim Breitner

• Mention repo name in mail send body
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1362

issue1392

• use parsec to parse .authorspelling
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1392

Patches applied in the last week (32)

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darcs weekly news #48

News and discussions

1. The darcs team discussed the inclusion of Dave Love's darcs Emacs plugin into the contrib directory of darcs:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-December/022518.html

2. Ganesh submitted a patch (based on a previous one by Sergei Trofimovich) making darcs compilable with GHC 6.12:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-December/022540.html

3. Cabal 1.8 and cabal-install 0.8 were released, which will enable non-redundant compilation of darcs and libdarcs:

   • http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-1.8.0.2
   • http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install-0.8.0

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue835 Luca Molteni

• show file with file directory arguments
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue835

issue1712 Luca Molteni

• darcs over-reports number of patches to pull
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1712

Patches applied in the last week (9)

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darcs weekly news #47

News and discussions

1. Jason Dagit told us about his experiments to make darcs more memory-efficient:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-December/022517.html

2. A discussion occured about the (currently inexistent) handling of symlinks in darcs:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-December/022432.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Darcs3Wishlist

Issues resolved in the last week (8)

issue223 Benedikt Huber

• add --remote-darcs flag for remote darcs executable
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue223

issue1216 Trent W. Buck

• list Match section in ToC.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1216

issue1308 Luca Molteni

• push should warn about unpulled patches before patch-selection
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1308

issue1336 David Markvica

• poor error message on --last "" (empty string to numbers parser)
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1336

issue1377 Benedikt Huber

• getProgname for local darcs instances
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1377

issue1424 David Markvica

• 1424: darcs get wrongly reports "using lazy repository" if you ctrl-c old-fashioned get
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1424

issue1594 Dave Love

• define PREPROCHTML in makefile
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1594

issue1709 quiark@centrum.cz

• Short version of progress reporting was wrong.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1709

Patches applied in the last week (52)

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