darcs weekly news #58

News and discussions

1. The fourth Darcs hacking sprint has just ended! A dozen of Darcs developers were present at Zurich for three days. Before a full-length report is posted, you can consult the wiki for a rough outline of the work done:

   • http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2010/03/darcs-team-at-zurihac.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-03

2. GHC version support was discussed in depth, and it was decided that Darcs would only be guaranteed to compile with the last two stable branches of GHC:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023269.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023323.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Development/Policy

Issues resolved in the last week (5)

issue643 Guillaume Hoffmann

• darcs send -o outputs remote repo email address
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue643

issue1456 Guillaume Hoffmann

• by using Tar and GZip haskell modules for dist
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1456

issue1473 mail@stefanwehr.de

• annotate command accepts "." and treats "" as invalid input
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1473

issue1750 Eric Kow

• uncover help text for darcs show pristine.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1750

issue1767 Ganesh Sittampalam

• send CRC warnings to stderr
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1767

Patches applied in the last week (25)

See darcs wiki entry for details.