[darcs-users] [darcs-devel] [hcar at haskell.org: HCAR May 2008 contribution]

[Janis Voigtlaender]

Von: David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>
> Looks fine to me.  How's this, Janis?

Fine, Thanks.

> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 05:28:03PM -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> > On 2008.04.24 07:50:00 -0700, David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> 
> scribbled 4.5K characters:
> > > Any volunteers to write the HCAR entry for darcs?
> > >
> > > David
> > 
> > I guess we could just edit the '07 entry, to look like this:
> > 
> > -----
> 
> Darcs is a distributed revision control system written in Haskell. In
> darcs, every copy of your source code is a full repository, which 
> allowsfor full operation in a disconnected environment, and also 
> allows anyone
> with read access to a darcs repository to easily create their own 
> branchand modify it with the full power of darcs’ revision
> control. Darcs is based on an underlying theory of patches, which 
> allowsfor safe reordering and merging of patches even in complex 
> scenarios. For
> all its power, darcs remains very easy to use tool for every day use
> because it follows the principle of keeping simple things simple.
> 
> 2008 has seen some major milestones reached in the development of 
> Darcs:years of development of Darcs-2 culminated in a recent 
> release of Darcs
> 2.0.0. Darcs 2.0.0.0 introduces a number of new features and import 
> bugfixes: most notably, it fixes the 'conflict bug' by supporting a 
> newrepository format; adds hashed repositories for increased speed; 
> andintegrates a global cache for faster downloading of patches, 
> among numerous
> other improvements. In the 1.x branch of Darcs, since the last HCAR,
> support for GHC 6.8.x was added. Related Darcs programs like Trac 
> supportand Darcswatch also are worth checking out.
> 
> Darcs has also seen a revamp of its infrastructure - a 
> consolidation of the
> stable/unstable development repositories to a single one, 
> separation of
> functions for the two mailing lists, and so on. Future work for 
> Darcs will
> center around building interesting new features using the new 
> repositoryformat; further optimizations and code cleanup; improving 
> testing of Darcs
> and adding buildbots; and finishing adding in use of 'type witnesses',
> which will offer even more static type guarantees of correct 
> functionality.
> Patches great and small would be heartily welcome!
> 
> Darcs is free software licensed under the GNU GPL.
> 
> > ---
> > 
> > I think I've covered most of what's been interesting lately - 
> zooko's buildbots, nomeata's Darcswatch, lispy's type witnesses, my 
> own humble optimization work, the more notable Darcs-2 features, 
> and so on.
> > 
> 
> 
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> David Roundy
> Department of Physics
> Oregon State University
>