[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #60

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. darcs 2.4.1 was released, fixing a couple of bugs of version 2.4.0.
   However, a serious bug under Windows was discovered, so Windows users
   should still stick to the 2.3.1 version, while 2.4.2 is not out:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023647.html
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023736.html
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023769.html

2. Three students wrote their applications for this year's Summer of Code.
   Projects members discussed the priorities of darcs: network speed, local
   speed or UI ?

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023628.html
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023631.html
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023673.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)
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issue1159 Dmitry Kurochkin
 * smart caches union.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1159

issue1645 Eric Kow
 * bump hashed-storage to 0.4.11; don't follow symlinks.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1645

issue1756 Reinier Lamers
 * bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.4.10
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1756


Patches applied in the last week (29)
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2010-04-23 Eric Kow
 - Resolve conflicts with dependency bump patches in 2.4.1.
 - Resolve issue1645: bump hashed-storage to 0.4.11; don't follow symlinks.

2010-03-25 Reinier Lamers
 - resolve issue1756: bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.4.10
 - Fix issue1645 case fold test

2010-04-11 Eric Kow
 - Split case-folding tests for issue1645 out so we can skip them as needed.

2010-04-11 Reinier Lamers
 - Mark issue1645 test as succeeding
 - Bump version number to 2.4.1
 - Update NEWS for 2.4 and 2.4.1

2010-04-21 Eric Kow
 - Camel case Preproc.
 - Camel case Darcs.Email.
 - Camel case Darcs.Global.
 - Camel case Darcs.RemoteApply.
 - Camel case Darcs.Lock.

2010-04-22 Florent Becker
 - make witnesses compile in Repository.hs

2010-04-18 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - Darcs.Repository: use pipelining when copying patches.
 - URL: add maxPipelineLength function, rename maxPipeLength to
maxPipelineLengthRef.
 - Resolve issue1159: smart caches union.

2010-04-13 Matthias Kilian
 - Create manual directory if it doesn't exist

2010-04-13 Eric Kow
 - Camel case IsoDate.
 - Camel case Printer and Darcs.ColorPrinter.
 - Camel case Exec, Darcs.Utils and Darcs.External.

2010-04-12 Reinier Lamers
 - Also update release date on homepage
 - Update website for 2.4.1 release

2010-04-06 Dmitry Astapov
 - Implemented all test cases from the discussion of bug 1645

2010-04-08 Eric Kow
 - Fix darcs bug tip (missing space).
 - Disable DARCS_PATCHES_XML posthook test on Windows.

2010-04-05 Reinier Lamers
 - Make issue1739 test skip instead of fail on non-UTF-8 locales

2010-04-05 Eric Kow
 - Accept issue1363: mark-conflicts inconsistency with duplicate patches.
 - Accept issue1737: confusing darcs move error message.