[darcs-users] 2.2.0pre1 tarballs ready for testing

[Eric Kow]

Hi!

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:20:11 +0100, Petr Rockai wrote:
> I'm happy to announce that tarballs of first pre-version of darcs 2.2 are now
> ready for testing. There are two, one is produced by cabal and one by our
> traditional make-based system. The more official, configure-and-make-based
> tarball can be found at:
> 
> http://repos.mornfall.net/darcs/darcs-2.2.0pre1.tar.gz

I've installed this one on my machine, thanks!

> http://repos.mornfall.net/darcs/darcs-2.1.98.1.tar.gz
> 
> I have used some "creative" versioning, since cabal refuses any non-numeric
> pieces in the version string. Therefore, our consensus with Trent was to use:
> 
> - x.98.y for a "pre y" version (or "alpha")
> - x.99.y for a "rc y" version

I was just thinking to forgo putting pre-releases or release candidates
on hackage (people could just download the tarball).   But the
convention is sensible.  It assumes that we'll be incrementing the 'x'
on each 6-month release, which I think is fair enough.

> I think this is much less ambiguous than the current practice of just
> increasing the 4th digit by one for snapshots.

So the state of the darcs 2.1.2.x snapshots is due to a miscommunication
on my part.  Namely, I had assumed that they would just literally be
darcs 2.1.2 plus cabalisation, but had failed to communicate that
assumption to Jason.  As a result, darcs 2.1.2.x are actually in effect
pre-releases of darcs 2.2.  Indeed, something like darcs 2.1.98 would
more clearly communicate the state of affairs.

> Other than providing these tarballs, I have drafted a changelog:

Good work!  I was about to comment on issue numbers, but notice that
you have spotted it too :-)

>   * Improvements in Windows support. (Salvatore Insalaco)

With Thorkil's help as you mention below, it may be useful to have
issue numbers associated with the ChangeLog entries.

> 1) We need as many people to test both of these tarballs as possible. The
> quality of 2.2 is directly dependent on amount of testing we can get for the
> pre-releases. If *you* don't find the bugs, no-one will, and they will creep
> into the final release. Thanks for your patience, time and bugreports!

I've installed 2.2.0pre1 on my machine.  How about you?

> 2) It would be nice to have nicely formatted list of issues fixed between 2.1.2
> and 2.2.0pre1. I suppose our Issue Manager (currently the hat is worn by
> Thorkil) could produce such a list without too much hassle? Ideally, it'd
> contain issue number, its title (summary) and possibly the author(s) of the
> fix. Thanks!

If it helps, you can do this by issuing a search command on the bug
tracker website

> 4) It'd be very helpful if someone with HackageDB account could upload the
> cabal-based tarball (the one with funny version number). I'll have to get an
> account sooner or later, but haven't gotten around to it.

Ah, it's very easy; just mail ross at soi.city.ac.uk

> 5) The currently last thing I can recall is that http://darcs.net should
> probably be updated with this release somehow. I have no idea how is that
> done. Kowey, can you help? Thanks!

I'll look into this as soon as I can catch up with your patches.

> PS: Kowey, I have added some patches in the release branch. Some of them might
> be worth pulling back into mainline, others not. If you could review what you
> deem appropriate for mainline and what not, that'd be great, so we avoid
> superfluous divergence. They should be mostly trivial. As for the GNUmakefile
> patch, please apply Trent's version he posted to the list. I will pull it into
> branch and resolve the conflicts. Ta.

Ok, but I ran into this yucky problem (!), which may be a manifestation
of http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1159

darcs failed:  Couldn't fetch
`0000001963-b8534fc6584c421a2127b2eac0306c6853b5e22467567dd32a9c7fdd8111f430'
in subdir pristine.hashed from sources:

thisrepo:/here/eykk10/darcsImpl/branch-2.2
cache:/home/eykk10/.darcs/cache
repo:http://repos.mornfall.net/darcs/branch-2.2
repo:/home/xrockai/dev/darcs/branch-2.2
thisrepo:/home/xrockai/dev/public/darcs/branch-2.2
repo:/home/xrockai/dev/darcs/unstable
repo:http://darcs.net/unstable
repo:http://darcs.net/stable
repo:/home/darcs-stable/darcs
thisrepo:/home/darcs-unstable/darcs

Thoughts?

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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