[darcs-users] ANNOUNCE: vc-darcs.el 1.10

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 11:50:29 UTC 2009


Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr> writes:
> While I've made efforts not to break compatibility with Emacs 22 and
> XEmacs, this version has only been tested under Emacs 23.  At any
> rate, if you're an Emacs-vc user, I very strongly recommend switching
> to 23, the new version of vc is much better.

The improvements to vc.el were specifically for distributed VCSs, so I
second that recommendation.  (Worst case: if CVS Emacs is broken for a
week, you can keep Emacs 22 installed and run that.)

> Right now, I'm not enforcing the use of UTF-8 in record messages --
> messages end up in whatever encoding the current locale dictates.  Do
> people think that vc-darcs should be converting messages to UTF-8?

I think Darcs should be doing that, but IIUC that's blocked on GHC. :-/



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