[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #41

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. Ganesh Sittampalam sent patches enabling a long-asked feature, edition of
   patches at record time. Review is underway:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021452.html
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021487.html

2. Eric Kow modified the roadmap for darcs 2.4, now focussing on handling
   hashed repositories efficiently and meeting the needs of the GHC team:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021357.html
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021370.html
 * http://wiki.darcs.net/Roadmap

3. Eric also met researchers working into Operational Transformation, and
   wrote a report of this exchange, aiming at making people of collaborative
   editing and revision control speak together and in a common language:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021382.html
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021307.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)
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issue1300 Kamil Dworakowski
 * logfile deleted on unsucessful record
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1300

issue1582 Salvatore Insalaco
 * bump required hashed-storage version to 0.3.8, to fix
Windows-related file deletion errors.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1582


Patches applied in the last week (22)
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2009-09-19 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - add canonization function for FL Prim
 - add substitution mechanism for PatchChoices
 - camelCase recently added functions
 - Add utility code for editing text
 - break out and export run_editor utility function
 - add "parallel pairs"

2009-09-17 Salvatore Insalaco
 - Resolve issue1582: bump required hashed-storage version to 0.3.8,
to fix Windows-related file deletion errors.

2009-09-09 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - change the type of gcau to reflect its behaviour
 - make type of checkUnrelatedRepos more general

2009-09-17 Kamil Dworakowski
 - resolve issue1300: logfile deleted on unsucessful record
 - modify issue1300 test to fail for the right reason

2009-09-16 Eric Kow
 - Accept issue1610: bug in get_extra with darcs 1 semantics only.
 - Accept issue1609: Operational Transformations TP2 on conflict marking.

2009-09-15 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - relicense Darcs.Commands.GZCRCs as BSD3

2009-09-16 Petr Rockai
 - Fix a (somewhat bogus) unused-module warning in Ssh.
 - Re-implement haskell_policy in terms of hlint.

2009-09-13 Kamil Dworakowski
 - test that tentative leftover is cleared
 - extend issue1406 test
 - regression test for amend-record with failed test

2009-09-06 Reinier Lamers
 - Fix locale switching in emailformat.sh test
 - Remove home-grown UTF-8 decoder, use utf8-string instead

2009-09-13 Trent W. Buck
 - Fix a typo László reported months ago.