[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #45

Guillaume Hoffmann guillaumh at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 15:11:34 UTC 2009


News and discussions
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1. The darcs team is now using roundup as a patch tracker! Eric Kow announced
   this new feature which now handles all patches send with darcs send:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021957.html

2. Discussion about the formalization of darcs patch theory continued,
   involving the most prominent darcs theorists around!

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021970.html
   * http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jjacobson/patch-theory/

3. Reinier Lamers submitted a patch enabling storage of textual patch metadata
   in UTF-8, fixing one of darcs's oldest bugs. Review pending:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-November/022050.html
   * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue64

Issues resolved in the last week (2)
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issue1554 Trent W. Buck
 * allow opt-out of -threaded (fix ARM builds).
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1554

issue1588 Ganesh Sittampalam
 * add --skip-conflicts option
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1588


Patches applied in the last week (21)
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2009-10-25 Petr Rockai
 - A vastly more efficient implementation of LookForAdds.
 - Bump the hashed-storage dependency to >= 0.4.1.

2009-10-15 Florent Becker
 - Refactor Darcs.Commands.Send
 - Refactor Darcs.Commands.Push

2009-11-01 Eric Kow
 - Make applyItNow type signature work with GHC 6.8.3.
 - Fix import conflict between Florent and Ganesh's patches.

2009-10-08 Florent Becker
 - Refactor Darcs.Commands.Apply

2009-10-31 Eric Kow
 - Add an extra newline in help text stored in author prefs.

2009-10-15 Florent Becker
 - Refactor Darcs.Commands.AmendRecord
 - Refactor Darcs.Commands.Rollback
 - Remove useless import of Verbose in Darcs.Commands.Unrecord

2009-10-11 Trent W. Buck
 - Partially rewrite "darcs record" help.
 - Rewrite $DARCS_EMAIL documentation.

2009-10-10 Eric Kow
 - Canonize Kari Hoijarvi, Matthias Fischmann, Thomas Hartman.

2009-10-31 Trent W. Buck
 - Resolve issue1554: allow opt-out of -threaded (fix ARM builds).
 - Typo: s/legal time/legal people/.

2009-10-10 Eric Kow
 - Generalize, tidy up and expand license exceptions file.

2009-10-31 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - rename a local variable that doesn't have to be a list

2009-10-30 Eric Kow
 - Cabal flag for static binary (-fstatic)

2009-10-29 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - add some haddock and rename a variable
 - Resolve issue1588: add --skip-conflicts option


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