Darcs News #114

News and discussions

1. Since the first release of Darcs 2.12, we released a few minor versions, the latest being 2.12.5 on January:
   
   • https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs-2.12.5/changelog
2. Ben Franksen and Gian Piero Carrubba performed some refactorings about Darcs (zsh) autocompletion:
   
   • https://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-reviewed/patch/4800ed861b90e94d6963ba9079725d7e6cdddeda
   • https://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-reviewed/patch/4ddee01dac242abaed1d532c94f9a105bec7f272
   • https://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-reviewed/patch/ad82b9f4b110df2924e1fa1fb6074c48a2cf6234
   • https://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-reviewed/patch/dd660f6b34d4e4775db2984c55f1a5568a482adc
3. As for Darcsden, the backend of http://hub.darcs.net, progress has been made on modernizing the ssh server used by it:
   
   • https://hub.darcs.net/ganesh/ssh/issue/5
   • https://hub.darcs.net/simon/darcsden

Issues resolved (7)

issue2138 Guillaume Hoffmann

• report conflicting files in whatsnew -s
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2138

issue2496 Ben Franksen

• improve output of darcs whatsnew with file arguments
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2496

issue2498 Ganesh Sittampalam

• unconditionally use the Haskell HTTP package
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2498

issue2504 Ben Franksen

• skip ssh tests that require password input
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2504

issue2512 Stephan-A. Posselt

• author name is written to repository after multiple-choice prompt
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2512

issue2516 Ben Franksen

• joining (possible) URL path elements should not use </> from System.FilePath
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2516

issue2526 Ben Franksen

• actually consider boring option in D.UI.Flags.diffingOpts
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2526

Patches applied (196)

See darcs wiki entry for details.