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