[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #67

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. Reinier announced the first beta of Darcs 2.5:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-July/024459.html

2. The next darcs sprint will happen in October in Orleans, France:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-July/024429.html
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-July/024430.html

Issues resolved in the last week (6)
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issue1288 Ganesh Sittampalam
 * the main darcs code now compiles and runs with witnesses
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1288

issue1726 David Markvica
 * Files with _darcs prefix are always boring
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1726

issue1825 Petr Rockai
 * do not omit important prims in unrecordedChanges w/ files.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1825

issue1845 Petr Rockai
 * fix "darcs record f" for f a removed, version-tracked file.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1845

issue1865 Petr Rockai
 * make scanBundle produce a well-formed PatchSet.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1865

issue1871 Petr Rockai
 * announceFiles should not give empty list for ".".
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1871


Patches applied in the last week (83)
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2010-07-11 Thorkil Naur
 - Fix test issue1865-get-context.sh

2010-07-09 Petr Rockai
 - Resolve issue1865: make scanBundle produce a well-formed PatchSet.

2010-07-09 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - remove redundant and accidentally checked in definition
 - remove dead code
 - fix warning
 - standardize GHC options
 - fix unused variable warning
 - fix name shadowing warning
 - rename field names to avoid shadowing warnings
 - fix unused code warning
 - fix shadowing warnings
 - fix warning
 - fix warning
 - remove dead code
 - add comment about why we're using a deprecated option
 - stop using Control.OldException in Setup.lhs + deps
 - Resolve issue1288: the main darcs code now compiles and runs with witnesses
 - remove final bits of witness conditionalisation
 - fix witnesses in resolveConflicts
 - add witnesses to glump09
 - add witnesses to actualMerge
 - make mapPrimFL work with witnesses
 - reduce scope of GADT_WITNESSES guard
 - add a comment
 - move unsafeFL definition to its one remaining use site
 - rename unsafeUnflippedseal for consistency
 - remove witnesses conditionalisation from unravel
 - add witnesses to get_supers
 - drop GADT_WITNESSES conditionalisation of [other_]commute_recursive_merger
 - drop redundant part of testcases

2010-07-07 Petr Rockai
 - Don't pipe stuff into a process that never reads it.
 - Fail more verbosely in network/issue1503 test.
 - Enable pipefail globally in tests.

2010-04-20 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - drop headFL
 - drop GADT_WITNESSES conditionalisation of new_ur
 - drop GADT_WITNESSES conditionalisation of unwind
 - drop GADT_WITNESSES conditionalisation of merger_commute
 - drop GADT_WITNESSES conditionalisation in Darcs.Patch.Read
 - add dummy implementation of merger
 - push witnesses error from public_unravel into unravel
 - move instance to Darcs.Witnesses
 - drop headRL
 - add type signature for actual_merge'
 - drop spurious semicolon
 - drop GADT_WITNESSES conditionalisation of commute_no_merger
 - remove some GADT_WITNESSES conditionalisation
 - GHC 6.10 build fix: don't use GADT records
 - change test to not remove directories afterwards
 - add unsafeCoercePStart/End
 - export unsafeUnseal etc with GADT_WITNESSES
 - a couple more MyEq instances
 - use packStringLetters Show hack for RepoModel
 - move Show2 Patch instance to Darcs.Patch.Show
 - rework Show<n> classes to be more flexible
 - packStringLetters Show hack needs to use Char8
 - drop a few unsafeFL uses
 - drop some unused unsafe functions
 - switch Darcs.Test.Patch.QuickCheck to use Origin type
 - add Darcs.Test.Patch.QuickCheck to witnesses build
 - remove unused instance
 - replace 'assert' function with equivalent 'guard' from Control.Monad
 - don't re-export unravel/merger in Darcs.Patch
 - remove conditionalisation of imports on GADT_WITNESSES for simplicity
 - push GADT_WITNESSES conditionalisation down into actual_merge definition
 - drop GADT_WITNESSES conditionalisation for clever_commute
 - drop GADT_WITNESSES conditionalisation in modernizePatch

2010-06-25 David Markvica
 - Resolve issue1726: Files with _darcs prefix are always boring

2010-06-28 Petr Rockai
 - Resolve issue1825: do not omit important prims in unrecordedChanges w/ files.
 - Avoid explicit add of an utf8-encoded file in issue1763 test.
 - Add a number of missing --test parameters to the testsuite.

2010-06-02 Eric Kow
 - Make --no-test default for record, amend and check.
 - Better darcs-specific mailing list for update_roundup.pl.

2010-06-28 Petr Rockai
 - Resolve issue1845: fix "darcs record f" for f a removed,
version-tracked file.
 - Resolve issue1871: announceFiles should not give empty list for ".".

2010-06-26 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - stop using impredicativity

2009-11-14 Jonathan Daugherty
 - Docstring typo fix

2010-04-26 Eric Kow
 - Remove apparant trailing noise in documentation on sources.
 - Remove advice to create a global cache (we create one by default).

2010-06-28 Alexey Levan
 - Use temporary files in doOptimizeHTTP
 - Add support for lazy getting a packed repository
 - Don't use packs when getting a local repository
 - Fix warning in Darcs.Repository
 - Decrease memory consumption while packing a repo