darcs weekly news #70

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.5 beta 3 was released:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024897.html

2. The next Darcs Hacking Sprint will take place at Orleans, France, the 15-17 of October:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024886.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-10

3. Version 0.1.9 of darcs-benchmark was released, including bugfixes and experimental support for comparison with git and mercurial:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024785.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024749.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Benchmarks/Mornfall?revision=20100807120334-328e3-64802e95bafde8a279faafa7baba24b0558ebb0a.gz

4. Adolfo Builes blogged about the end of his summer of code project. A summary of his project is available on the wiki:

   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/08/gsoc-week-11.html
   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/08/gsoc-week-12.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/GSoC/2010-Cache

Issues resolved in the last week (7)

issue1290 Eric Kow

• support diff --index.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1290

issue1530 Eric Kow

• allow user to pick from multiple email address.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1530

issue1599 Adolfo Builes

• 1599: automatically expire unused caches
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1599

issue1873 Petr Rockai

• give nicer error when apply fails due to missing patches.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1873

issue1896 Ganesh Sittampalam

• enable witnesses for library
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1896

issue1908 Petr Rockai

• try to create a global cache before checking its availability.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1908

issue1909 Petr Rockai

• generate correct context in unpull -O.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1909

Patches applied in the last week (49)

See darcs wiki entry for details.