darcs weekly news #60

News and discussions

1. darcs 2.4.1 was released, fixing a couple of bugs of version 2.4.0. However, a serious bug under Windows was discovered, so Windows users should still stick to the 2.3.1 version, while 2.4.2 is not out:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023647.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023736.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023769.html

2. Three students wrote their applications for this year's Summer of Code. Projects members discussed the priorities of darcs: network speed, local speed or UI ?

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023628.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023631.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023673.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1159 Dmitry Kurochkin

• smart caches union.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1159

issue1645 Eric Kow

• bump hashed-storage to 0.4.11; don't follow symlinks.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1645

issue1756 Reinier Lamers

• bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.4.10
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1756

Patches applied in the last week (29)

See darcs wiki entry for details.

darcs weekly news #59

News and discussions

1. Lennart Kolmodin announced that darcs 2.4 was available in Gentoo Linux:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023513.html

2. Mark Stosberg talked about darcs handling large repositories, then spawning a discussion on git vs darcs from the UI point of view:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023526.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023539.html

3. If you haven't already read it on this blog, you can have a look at Eric's report from the last darcs hacking sprint:

   • http://blog.darcs.net/2010/03/darcs-hacking-sprint-4-report.html

Issues resolved in the last week (4)

issue1208 dixiecko@gmail.com

• wish: darcs trackdown --bisect
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1208

issue1427 Guillaume Hoffmann

• accept gzipped patch bundles in darcs apply
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1427

issue1739 Reinier Lamers

• make ColorPrinter handle characters > 255
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1739

issue1756 Petr Rockai

• new h-s handles file removals correctly in Index.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1756

issue1765 Reinier Lamers

• refuse to remove non-tracked directories recursively
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1765

Patches applied in the last week (29)

See darcs wiki entry for details.