[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #58

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. The fourth Darcs hacking sprint has just ended! A dozen of Darcs developers
   were present at Zurich for three days. Before a full-length report is
   posted, you can consult the wiki for a rough outline of the work done:

   * http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2010/03/darcs-team-at-zurihac.html
   * http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-03

2. GHC version support was discussed in depth, and it was decided that Darcs
   would only be guaranteed to compile with the last two stable branches
   of GHC:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023269.html
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023323.html
   * http://wiki.darcs.net/Development/Policy

Issues resolved in the last week (5)
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issue643 Guillaume Hoffmann
 * darcs send -o outputs remote repo email address
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue643

issue1456 Guillaume Hoffmann
 * by using Tar and GZip haskell modules for dist
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1456

issue1473 mail at stefanwehr.de
 * annotate command accepts "." and treats "" as invalid input
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1473

issue1750 Eric Kow
 * uncover help text for darcs show pristine.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1750

issue1767 Ganesh Sittampalam
 * send CRC warnings to stderr
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1767


Patches applied in the last week (25)
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2010-03-20 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - add --keep-date option to amend-record

2010-03-21 Reinier Lamers
 - Resolve conflict between tar dependency and hashed-storage bump

2010-03-21 Salvatore Insalaco
 - Bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.4.8

2010-03-20 Luca Molteni
 - Accept issue1765: recursive remove on root

2010-03-20 Guillaume Hoffmann
 - Resolve issue643 darcs send -o outputs remote repo email address
 - useless string concatenation

2010-03-20 Florent Becker
 - Add --match option to apply

2010-03-20 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - use library function 'not' for checking failure

2010-03-20 mail at stefanwehr.de
 - Resolve issue1473: annotate command accepts "." and treats "" as
invalid input

2010-03-20 Petr Rockai
 - Only use stderr in install-deps, avoiding stderr/stdout interleaving issues.
 - Pass the install-deps options down to second cabal install call as well.
 - We also need tar to build witnesses.

2010-03-20 Guillaume Hoffmann
 - make dist.sh test check the archive created by dist
 - resolve issue1456 by using Tar and GZip haskell modules for dist

2010-03-19 Stefan Wehr
 - Removed -cpp flag as suggested by HLint

2010-03-18 Eric Kow
 - New bugtracker reporting page.

2010-03-18 Jason Dagit
 - replace if-statement with guard in elegant_merge

2010-02-21 Eric Kow
 - Resolve issue1750: uncover help text for darcs show pristine.
 - Correct online help text for aliases of subcommands.

2010-01-20 Petr Rockai
 - Augment the .boring file to cover the generated manual bits.

2010-03-15 Reinier Lamers
 - Update tests/README.test_maintainers.txt to cabalized build system
 - Include tests/README.test_maintainers.txt in distribution tarballs

2010-03-15 Eric Kow
 - Fix update_roundup.pl for the case where only one patch is applied.

2010-03-14 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - resolve issue1767: send CRC warnings to stderr

2010-03-14 Eric Kow
 - Fix my posthook test (sorry!).