[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #29

Guillaume Hoffmann guillaumh at gmail.com
Sun May 17 21:29:02 UTC 2009


News and discussions
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1. Eric Kow provided us with an update about the expenditures of the funds
   raised before the sprint:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019737.html

2. Simon Marlow explained the current workflow of the GHC team with
   darcs and the needs of the developers, which lead to a discussion on
   a darcs equivalent to git rebase and hg transplant:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019748.html
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019777.html
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019778.html

Issues resolved in the last week (4)
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issue1173 Salvatore Insalaco
 * support hard links on NTFS.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1173

issue1248 Ganesh Sittampalam
 * 1248: support compressed inventories for darcs-1 repos
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1248

issue1351 Salvatore Insalaco
 * fix repository path handling on Windows.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1351

issue1455 Trent W. Buck
 * implement "darcs help environment".
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1455


Patches applied in the last week (47)
-------------------------------------
2009-05-16 Trent W. Buck
 - Demote one-paragraph sections into a definition list.
 - Rewrite "see also" sections of home page.
 - Point out up-front how dated LWN's recommendation is.
 - Don't abuse <table> as presentational markup (use CSS instead).
 - Avoid patently unnecessary consing.
 - Capitalize Darcs' name.
 - Make index.html XHTML 1.0 Strict (was HTML 4).
 - Update hard link docs: NTFS is now supported.
 - Relicense tests/EXAMPLE.sh (from GPL2+ to MIT).

2009-05-01 Eric Kow
 - Haddock Darcs.Patch.Prim.commute_no_conflicts.

2008-11-15 David Roundy
 - make rollback smarter about breaking up changes.

2009-05-09 Trent W. Buck
 - Obviate DARCS_TESTING_HOME workaround by setting %APPDATA% correctly.

2009-05-02 Eric Kow
 - Mention SFC membership on front page.
 - Update web page to account for mailing list merge.
 - Update donations page with SFC details.

2009-05-13 Trent W. Buck
 - Make tests/EXAMPLE.sh work when in bugs/.
 - Teach preproc how to find the environment variable help.
 - Naturalize some lists used in docs.
 - Teach src/English to generate a natural list from a Haskell list.
 - Module haddock for English.

2008-11-10 David Roundy
 - remove unused darcs.nsi

2009-05-13 Trent W. Buck
 - Migrate SENDMAIL documentation to environmentHelp.
 - Migrate SSH_PORT documentation to environmentHelp.
 - Fix make install.
 - Fix cabal sdist.

2009-05-13 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - make issue1248 script follow example template

2009-05-03 Trent W. Buck
 - Test "darcs apply f" as well as "darcs apply <f".

2008-12-10 David Roundy
 - fix error output (which leaked userError).
 - cut hardly-used type synonym.

2009-05-13 Trent W. Buck
 - Remove stale import.
 - Migrate environment variable documentation.
 - Add ENVIRONMENT section to manpage.
 - Move Darcs.Manpage into Darcs.Commands.Help.
 - Resolve issue1455: implement "darcs help environment".
 - Haddockize Darcs.Global.atexit.

2009-05-12 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - resolve issue 1248: support compressed inventories for darcs-1 repos
 - script for issue1248

2009-05-10 Florian Weimer
 - Update wiki URLs to point to wiki.darcs.net

2009-05-01 Salvatore Insalaco
 - Resolve issue1173: support hard links on NTFS.
 - Resolve issue1351: fix repository path handling on Windows.

2009-05-02 thomashartman1 at gmail.com
 - add back documentation on --patches, --from-patch, and --to-patch

2009-05-09 Salvatore Insalaco
 - Remove unused function: Darcs.Patch.Prim.applyBinary

2009-05-09 Trent W. Buck
 - Refactor preproc to remove cascade.
 - Remove obsolete \example{} support from preproc.
 - Make am_html less stupid.
 - Typo: stray closing quote.
 - Move tools/ to contrib/.


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