[darcs-users] announcing darcs 1.0.1rc1

Will will at glozer.net
Wed Dec 1 17:45:26 UTC 2004


David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I've just tarred up darcs version 1.0.1rc1.  I'd really like to release a
> darcs version 1.0.1 soon, since there is an important bug fixed in this
> release, which is related to commutation issues.
>
> Unfortunately, the bug fix means that there may be issues when
> interoperating with older versions of darcs.  Basically, older darcs
> allowed patches to commute when they really shouldn't.  This could lead to
> repository corruption, which is why it's an important fix.  There were a
> few other minor bugfixes since 1.0.1pre1.  Newlines should be slightly
> better behaved on windows, and MAPI email may now work with darcs send on
> windows.
>
> Please let me know if this works or doesn't work for you.  I really want to
> make sure 1.0.1 is released before I head home for Christmas in a couple of
> weeks, so if there are issues on any other platforms, there isn't time for
> very many release candidates.
>
> Since this is an important bugfix release, and people really *ought* to
> upgrade to it, I want to make extra-double-certain that it doesn't have any
> trivial problems (e.g. won't compile on platform foo) before releasing.  In
> the worst case scenario, I may go back to an older version of darcs and tag
> a 1.0.1rc2 that doesn't include 1.0.1rc1, that is, if there are potentially
> buggy recent changes.

Thanks David!  The build and test were successful on win32, mac os x
and linux.

For those running the win32 binaries, I am doing semi-daily builds now
so all patches through the 1.0.1rc1 tag are in
darcs-2004.12.01-win32.zip.

  http://glozer.net/darcs/daily/

Regards,
Will




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