[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #32

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. Eric Kow announced that darcs 2.3 and later will not be compilable with
   GHC 6.6:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020127.html

2. Matthias Kilian put online a mirror of GHC's repository in hashed format,
   and compared performance of darcs get on the different repositories:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020125.html
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020141.html

3. Petr Rockai's Summer of Code Progress:
 ``I have worked on documenting the index format (and code),
   some minor cleanup and interoperability improvements.''
 * http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_progress_3.html
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020123.html


Issues resolved in the last week (1)
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issue1412 Reinier Lamers
 * also adjust maxline in PatchCheck upon insert_line
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1412


Patches applied in the last week (12)
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2009-06-12 Trent W. Buck
 - Remove GHC 6.6 compatibility (Data.Function.on).
 - Update build dependency documentation.

2009-06-11 Petr Rockai
 - Bump version to 2.2.97.1.
 - Use the mmap package instead of bytestring-mmap.

2009-06-11 Reinier Lamers
 - Require test-framework etc. for building unit tests
 - Port unit tests from homegrown testrunner to test-framework
 - Remove testrunner subtree from darcs source tree
 - Clean up ugly late-night code in Darcs.Patch.Check

2009-06-10 Eric Kow
 - Remove api-doc targets from Makefile.
 - Do not depend on "make darcs" for "make website".
 - Fix homepage links to wiki.

2009-06-09 Reinier Lamers
 - resolve issue1412: also adjust maxline in PatchCheck upon insert_line