Thursday, July 9, 2015

darcs 2.10.1 release

Hi all,

The darcs team is pleased to announce the release of darcs 2.10.1 !

Downloading

The easiest way to install darcs 2.10.1 from source is by first installing the Haskell Platform (http://www.haskell.org/platform). If you have installed the Haskell Platform or cabal-install, you can install this release by doing:

$ cabal update
$ cabal install darcs-2.10.1

Alternatively, you can download the tarball from http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.10.1.tar.gz and build it by hand as explained in the README file.

The 2.10 branch is also available as a darcs repository from http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.10

What's new in darcs 2.10.1 (since darcs 2.10.0)



  • support terminfo 0.4, network 2.6, zlib 0.6, quickcheck 2.8 and attoparsec 0.13
  • errorDoc now prints a stack trace (if profiling was enabled) (Ben Franksen)
  • beautified error messages for command line and default files (Ben Franksen)
  • generalized doFastZip for darcsden support
  • fixed the following bugs:
    • issue2449: test harness/shelly: need to handle mis-encoded/binary data (Ganesh Sittampalam)
    • issue2423: diff only respecting --diff-command when a diff.exe is present (Alain91)
    • issue2447: get contents of deleted file (Ben Franksen)
    • issue2307: add information about 'darcs help manpage' and 'darcs help markdown' (Dan Frumin)
    • issue2461: darcs log --repo=remoterepo creates and populates _darcs (Ben Franksen)
    • issue2459: cloning remote repo fails to use packs if cache is on a different partition (Ben Franksen)

Feedback

If you have an issue with darcs 2.10.1, you can report it on http://bugs.darcs.net/ . You can also report bugs by email to bugs@darcs.net, or come to #darcs on irc.freenode.net.

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