darcs weekly news #61

News and discussions

1. Eric announced the release of darcs 2.4.3, which fixes critical bugs under Windows and fixes the performance regression of darcs convert:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/023972.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Releases/2.4
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Binaries

2. Simon Michael proposed a cleanup of the repository format names and gathered a few answers and proposals:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/023936.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/023969.html

3. Ganesh and Petr explained why it is not recommended anymore to build darcs with GHC 6.8:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023774.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023776.html
• http://wiki.darcs.net/Debian

Issues resolved in the last week (7)

issue64 Reinier Lamers

• store metadata as UTF-8, autodetect UTF-8, and don't normalize to NFC
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue64

issue1232 Dino Morelli

• darcs convert forgets _darcs/prefs/prefs
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1232

issue1760 Petr Rockai

• Fix working directory handling in Commands.Convert.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1760

issue1769 Matthias Kilian

• add support for --match 'comment ...'
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1769

issue1814 Petr Rockai

• Include contrib/darcs-errors.hlint in release tarball.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1814

issue1824 Eric Kow

• avoid PACKAGE_VERSION under Windows.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1824

issue1837 Petr Rockai

• Add readWorking and use it in pristineFromWorking.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1837

Patches applied in the last week (115)

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