Sunday, September 27, 2009

darcs weekly news #42

News and discussions

1. darcs 2.3.1 was released, including bug fixes for windows and documentation improvements:
2. The date and location for the next Darcs Hacking Sprint have been set at 14-15 november, Vienna:
3. Ganesh's hunk editing patch has been applied in the main branch of darcs. Please help up test and improve this feature!

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue291 Ganesh Sittampalam
issue1478 Trent W. Buck
issue1584 Eric Kow

Patches applied in the last week (33)

See text entry for details.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

darcs 2.3.1: better docs, less bugs

Dear Darcs users,


The darcs team would like to announce the immediate availability of a new stable version of darcs, 2.3.1. This is the latest development in the 2.3 branch, which brought significant performance improvements. Performance improvement continues to be a core focus of darcs development. Darcs 2.4, planned for January, will build upon the improvements in 2.3 to be even faster.

The user-visible changes in darcs 2.3.1 are:

  • Fix bugs in optimizations in 2.3.0
  • Documentation improvements
  • Remove autoconf build system

A more complete list of changes in this and older versions of darcs can be

found at http://www.darcs.net/NEWS .


Installing


You can obtain the source tarball at the following address:

The build instructions are available in the enclosed README file in this tarball. Moreover, if you have cabal-install available, you can install latest stable release of darcs by issuing the following commands (no tarballs needed):

$ cabal update

$ cabal install darcs

This should give you a darcs binary in `~/.cabal/bin` -- you should probably add this to your PATH. More detailed instructions for installing on Windows are available near the end of this announcement.


Installing on Windows


To install darcs on Windows systems from scratch, please download the Haskell Platform and MSYS:

After installing both, you should have an "MSYS" icon: run MSYS and in the terminal window type (the `$` character denotes the prompt, do not repeat it):

$ cabal update

$ cabal install darcs -f-curl

This should download, compile and install all required dependencies and also darcs itself. The resulting darcs executable will be placed into the Haskell Platform executables folder, and should be accessible from the MSYS shell (just type "darcs --version" to check).

darcs weekly news #41

News and discussions

1. Ganesh Sittampalam sent patches enabling a long-asked feature, edition of patches at record time. Review is underway:
2. Eric Kow modified the roadmap for darcs 2.4, now focussing on handling hashed repositories efficiently and meeting the needs of the GHC team:
3. Eric also met researchers working into Operational Transformation, and wrote a report of this exchange, aiming at making people of collaborative editing and revision control speak together and in a common language:

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1300 Kamil Dworakowski
issue1582 Salvatore Insalaco

Patches applied in the last week (22)

See text entry for details.

Monday, September 14, 2009

darcs weekly news #40

News and discussions

1. Jason Dagit and Ganesh Sittampalam joined the review team:
2. Ganesh Sittampalam tells us about darcs-relevant discussions at ICFP:
3. Eric Kow clarified the policy of the contrib directory of darcs, in particular because of the darcs.cgi script:
4. Eric also finished triaging all bugs of the bugtracker, sent us a summary of the situation and started looking for a way to track patches with (or without) roundup (our bugtracker):

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (27)

See text entry for details.

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