[darcs-users] About the 2.2.1 release.

[Petr Rockai]

Hi,

I know I have been silent about 2.2.1, although I have promised to move it
forward. So this is the current state: branch-2.2 is mostly up to date with
bugfixes on mainline; the possibly outstanding fixes are these:

Mon Jan 12 14:50:12 CET 2009  Dave Love <fx at gnu.org>
  * Resolve issue1311:  Use time zones from GNU coreutils; improve doc.

Sat Jan 10 04:29:07 CET 2009  Rob Hoelz <rob at hoelzro.net>
  * resolve issue1235: added --summary to obliterate

Wed Jan 21 18:24:22 CET 2009  Judah Jacobson <judah.jacobson at gmail.com>
  * Resolve issue1292: re-encode line input from the Haskeline backend.
Thu Jan 22 22:45:43 CET 2009  Judah Jacobson <judah.jacobson at gmail.com>
  * Tell the configure script to require haskeline>=0.6.0.

I'd like to hear some opinions about how to handle these three issues. If no
objections are raised before this weekend, I will tag 2.2.1rc1 with current
repository state on Saturday and proceed with releasing 2.2.1 around 3rd of
February (bar critical issues).

I'd also like to invite developers to use the release branch as their daily
darcs, so problems will be spotted and fixed. Moreover, this will give us more
room to break mainline (http://darcs.net) -- see the current cabal switch-over
that's causing some disturbances. The release branch does not have the comfort
of a buildbot watching over it (this will hopefully change for 2.3 release
branch), so it needs human supervision.

Thanks!

Yours,
   Petr.

PS: For completeness, this is the list of changes on the branch since
2.2.0. Mostly documentation and only minor code changes. I have left out
anything that seemed intrusive. The diff between branch-2.2 and unstable is
currently 49 patches.

Sun Jan 25 10:10:34 CET 2009  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Resolve issue1313: Clickable ToC and xrefs in PDF user manual.

Thu Jan 22 03:10:52 CET 2009  Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org>
  * Remove duplication in fields in the .cabal file
  Looks like it was a copy and paste error.

Thu Jan 22 03:10:38 CET 2009  Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org>
  * Remove unused ghc -threaded flag in library section
  The -threaded flag applies only to linking programs.
  Despte this, ghc regects the combinaton of using the -threaded
  and profiling flags, even for building a library. New Cabal
  versions will ignore the -threaded flag when building programs
  but not for libs because that combination is senseless. So there
  is a positive benefit to dropping it from the darcs library as
  it will let people build a profiling darcs with ghc-6.8 without
  having to modify the .cabal file to drop the -threaded flag.

Thu Jan 22 07:40:14 CET 2009  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * NEWS for Darcs 2.2.0.

Thu Jan 22 07:39:59 CET 2009  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Use conventional name "NEWS" for "new in $version" notes.

Fri Jan 16 18:09:55 CET 2009  florent.becker at ens-lyon.org
  * Haddocks for HashedIO

Fri Jan 16 18:09:31 CET 2009  florent.becker at ens-lyon.org
  * Haddocks for Cache

Fri Jan 16 18:07:42 CET 2009  florent.becker at ens-lyon.org
  * Haddock for Darcs.External.fetchFile

Tue Jan 13 01:13:45 CET 2009  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Clean up when previous test crashed.

Sun Jan 11 16:21:30 CET 2009  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Make "make clean" remove microbench.
  Put the clean target directly below the build target, so it's harder
  to get them out of sync in future.

Tue Jan 13 23:33:35 CET 2009  Thorkil Naur <naur at post11.tele.dk>
  * Fix test optimize_relink.sh when no hard linking available
  The semicolon in the echo command causes the test to fail with the
  message

  > optimize_relink.sh: line 37: assuming: command not found

  when no hard linking is available.

Sun Jan 11 12:48:01 CET 2009  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Consistently use sh (not csh) prompts in user manual.

  The sh prompt ($) was already used elsewhere in the manual, and I
  choose to standardize on it instead of csh (%) because sh (especially
  bash) seems more widespread and recognizable as the user shell prompt.

Fri Jan  9 10:07:26 CET 2009  lele at nautilus.homeip.net
  * resolve issue1270: don't show the motd when --xml-output is given

Sun Jan 11 16:19:41 CET 2009  Dave Love <fx at gnu.org>
  * Get setpref description in manual.

Thu Jan  8 17:00:35 CET 2009  Florent Becker <florent.becker at ens-lyon.org>
  * Haddock for Darcs.Repository.Format

Wed Dec 31 09:09:29 CET 2008  Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net>
  * Remove stale comment (we now require GHC 6.6)

Sat Jan  3 10:53:47 CET 2009  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Resolve issue1285: remove "cabal test" intermediaries.

Sun Dec 28 12:44:34 CET 2008  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Use imperative mood for primitive matcher help.

Sat Dec 27 21:42:18 CET 2008  Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net>
  * Fix haddock error

Sat Dec 27 15:18:45 CET 2008  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Rewrite primitive matcher examples.

Sat Dec 27 15:18:19 CET 2008  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Rewrite "darcs help --match" output.
  Add an introductory paragraph, and put all the examples into a single
  code block, since one-line paragraphs are kind hard to read.

Sat Dec 27 04:41:29 CET 2008  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Delete superfluous "Introduction" headings.
  I don't think it's useful to grant a subsection heading to the single
  introductory paragraph of a section.

Sun Nov  9 15:40:07 CET 2008  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Refactor error text for readability.

Sat Dec 27 02:10:31 CET 2008  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Tweak user manual's title page.
  It annoyed me that the user manual was just called "Darcs", not "Darcs
  User Manual".

Sun Dec 14 05:19:02 CET 2008  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Haddockize developer comment.

Sun Dec 21 09:09:49 CET 2008  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
  * Tweak punctuation in "darcs help --match".

  Manpages treat apostrophes in the first line specially.  Use `TeX
  style' quotes instead, so this string can be included in the manpage.

  Also omit mention of &&, || and ! until I find time to clarify that
  they are aliases for the human-readable and, or and not.

Wed Jan 14 12:06:07 CET 2009  Christian Kellermann <Christian.Kellermann at nefkom.net>
  * omit empty line at the end of output in darcs diff

Thu Jan 15 16:09:16 CET 2009  Petr Rockai <me at mornfall.net>
  tagged 2.2.0

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