[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #4

Eric Kow kowey at darcs.net
Thu Sep 18 11:18:18 UTC 2008


News and discussions
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1. First pre-release of darcs 2.0.3.  This version of darcs has some very nice
   bug fixes on offer.  A few more user-friendliness tweaks are planned for the
   actual release.
   * http://www.darcs.net/darcs-2.0.3pre1.tar.gz
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013839.html

2. Third venue confirmed for darcs hacking sprint, 25-26 October.
   Brighton, Portland and now Paris are all CONFIRMED.
   Come hack with us!
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013710.html

3. code.haskell.org upgrades to darcs 2!
   /usr/bin/darcs is now darcs 2.0.2 on this server.
   No action is needed on the user's part.
   * http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16419

4. Retiring GHC 6.4.  Nobody seems to be using GHC 6.4 to compile darcs
   after all, so we shall be dropping support for it.
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013731.html

Reviewers
---------
Thanks to our patch reviewers for this week for giving David a hand!

- Jason Dagit
- Nathan Gray
- Trent W. Buck

Issues resolved in the last week (6)
------------------------------------
issue691 Dmitry Kurochkin
 * distinguish between NoArg and ReqArg in defaults parser.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue691

issue709 David Roundy
 * avoid adding changes to pending in rmpend when possible.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue709

issue885 David Roundy
 * fix patchSetToRepository to work with hashed.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue885

issue1012 David Roundy
 * it seems to be fixed by the fix for issue709.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1012

issue1054 Dmitry Kurochkin
 * --no-cache option to ignore patch caches.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1054

issue1057 David Roundy
 * this was fixed in the previous patch.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1057


Patches applied in the last week (86)
-------------------------------------
2008-09-18 Eric Kow
 - TAG 2.0.3pre1
 - Bump version number to 2.0.3pre1.
 - Canonize Florent Becker, Matthias Killian, Trent Buck, Thorkil Naur
 - ChangeLog entries for darcs 2.0.3pre1 again.

2008-09-17 Judah Jacobson
 - Re-enable haskeline by default.  Require haskeline>=0.3.1 which fixes issue1050.
 - Throw an error when haskeline returns an EOF/EOT.

2008-09-17 Eric Kow
 - Disable more record_editor tests under Windows.

2008-09-17 David Roundy
 - add a couple of tests of unrecord.
 - add a few (passing) tests of pending handling in obliterate and unrecord.

2008-09-16 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - Use putStrLn for "Cancelled." message.

2008-09-16 David Roundy
 - remove now-unused is_addrmfile and is_addrmdir.
 - resolve issue1012: it seems to be fixed by the fix for issue709.
 - resolve issue885: fix patchSetToRepository to work with hashed.
 - resolve issue709: avoid adding changes to pending in rmpend when possible.
 - first-stage fix for issue709.
 - add new test that we don't do anything when repairing a clean repo.
 - whitespace change in prepend.
 - make shell_harness print summary of passing tests when running bugs tests.
 - trailing whitespace cleanup in Repository.Internal.
 - tiny refactor in Internal.lhs.
 - simplify issue965 test (which took quite a while for me to figure out).

2008-09-16 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - Test for issue691.

2008-09-16 Eric Kow
 - Make match.pl test understand Windows dates.
 - Disable some tests that don't work under Windows.
 - Translate get.pl test into shell.

2008-09-15 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - Resolve issue691: distinguish between NoArg and ReqArg in defaults parser.
 - Move get_default_flag type to definition.

2008-09-15 David Roundy
 - reverse overly-invasive haddocking.

2008-09-14 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - In darcs send if POST fails try sendmail.
 - Grammar in Darcs.Commands.Send.
 - Print "Successfully sent patch bundle to" only when we really sent something.

2008-09-15 Eric Kow
 - Fix overzealous escaping in haddock.

2008-09-13 florent.becker at ens-lyon.org
 - Haddock documentation for English.lhs
 - Haddock documentation for PrintPatch
 - Haddock documentation for Flags
 - Haddock documentation for Motd
 - Haddock string for TheCommands

2008-09-14 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - Run testing in temp directories to avoid collosions, fail if DarcsURL header is not found.
 - Use tempfile() UNLINK option to automatically remove temp files at exit.
 - Coding style in upload.cgi.
 - Stop after we found the first DarcsURL: in patch bundle.
 - Spaces in upload.cgi.

2008-09-14 Eric Kow
 - Really allow pull.sh test to pass on Windows.

2008-09-13 David Roundy
 - rewrite upload.cgi so it won't need any customization by default.
 - when _darcs/prefs/post is present, use _darcs/prefs/post for To: header.
 - sketchy documentation of _darcs/prefs/post

2008-09-14 Eric Kow
 - ChangeLog entries for darcs 2.0.3pre1
 - Disable amend-cancelling test under Cygwin.
 - Make binary.sh test more portable (avoid copying an exe).

2008-09-13 David Roundy
 - set default upload.cgi to work on darcs-unstable.

2008-09-12 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - Improve upload.cgi.
 - Spaces and punctuation in upload.cgi.

2008-09-13 David Roundy
 - fix problem in Darcs.URL refactor pointed out by Eric.

2008-09-12 Eric Kow
 - Disable a pull.sh test under Windows.

2008-09-12 David Roundy
 - refactor Darcs.URL to eliminate use of Regexes.
 - change is_file to return false on droundy at darcs.net:
 - clean up whitespace.
 - fix manual for optional arguments.
 - clean up whitespace.
 - add test for new --output-auto-name feature.

2008-09-12 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - Spaces in Darcs.Commands.Send module.
 - Make '--output-auto-name' accept optional directory argument.
 - Add DarcsOptAbsPathOption for options with optional path argument.
 - Refactor Darcs.Repository.Prefs.getCaches.
 - Print warning when '--http-pipelining' option is used, but darcs is compiled without HTTP pipelining support.
 - Do not download URL we have speculated before.
 - Spaces and parentheses in URL module.
 - Coding style in Darcs.Arguments.network_options.
 - Resolve issue1054: --no-cache option to ignore patch caches.
 - Remove unused variable from configure.ac.
 - Comment in configure.ac.
 - Indentation fixes in configure.ac.

2008-09-10 Steve Cotton
 - insecure printfs - fix the two that I can currently hit

2008-09-10 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - Formating and minor refactoring in URL.urlThread.

2008-09-10 David Roundy
 - TAG this version works.

2008-09-10 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - Add '[DEFAULT]' to -[-no]-http-pipelining options.

2008-09-10 David Roundy
 - remove ugly unused function appendToPath.
 - remove buggy unused function combine.

2008-09-10 Eric Kow
 - Make issue1057 test run on Cygwin.

2008-09-09 David Roundy
 - resolve issue1057: this was fixed in the previous patch.
 - fix bug in file path handling.
 - move issue966 test to tests/ since it passes.
 - don't inline global variables in URL.

2008-09-09 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - Documentation for -[-no]-http-pipelining options.
 - Space in Darcs.Arguments module.
 - Move network related options to network_options.

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