[darcs-users] Fwd: Releasing 2.8

Thu Jun 23 09:41:33 UTC 2011

Hi darcs users and developpers,

I'm glad to announce that darcs 2.8 beta 1 has been uploaded to hackage,
which means you can install it by doing: cabal install darcs-beta. The
source tarball is also available at
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/darcs-beta/2.7.98.1/darcs-beta-2.7.98.1.tar.gz.
See the bottom of the message for what's new in 2.8. Please test this,
and report any issues to bugs.darcs.net.

Enjoy your new darcs (and your day too)

Florent

> What's in 2.8
> =============
> 
> Since darcs 2.5 has been tagged, there have been 826 patches applied to
> darcs. Here is a (subjective) list of the most user-visible changes,
> report any omission:
> 
> 
> Thu Apr  7 02:04:36 CEST 2011  Owen Stephens <darcs at owenstephens.co.uk>
>   * resolve issue2052: Implicitly use unified diff, unless told not to.
> 
> Sat Apr  2 11:57:25 CEST 2011  Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh at gmail.com>
>   * default darcs get to use packs
> 
> Fri Apr  1 17:21:06 CEST 2011  Owen Stephens <darcs at owenstephens.co.uk>
>   * Ignore thisrepo source.
>   Do not read or write the 'thisrepo' source to the prefs/sources file.
> 
> Thu Feb 10 21:08:31 CET 2011  dixiecko at gmail.com
>   * Add inferred XML Schema for outputs.
> 
> Wed Feb  2 17:03:36 CET 2011  Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh at gmail.com>
>   * remove OF write support
>   Make low level pristine handling functions fail on OF repository
>   by printing an error message.
>   Adapted from work by Petr Rockai
> 
> Wed Feb  2 17:37:52 CET 2011  Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh at gmail.com>
>   * make OF get warning message point to wiki
> 
> Fri Jan 14 16:44:49 CET 2011  Florent Becker <florent.becker at ens-lyon.org>
>   * add a --no-record option to rollback
> 
> Sun Dec 19 22:42:19 CET 2010  Gabriel Kerneis <kerneis at pps.jussieu.fr>
>   * resolve issue1350: reliable patch transport
> 
>   Note that this patch does not compress attached patches, for the sake
>   of backward-compatibility.  But it does resolve the points of issue1350:
>   hide context when reviewing a patch and ensure a reliable transport with
>   application/x-darcs-patch instead of text/x-darcs-patch.
> 
> Sun Oct 17 17:41:31 CEST 2010  Florent Becker <florent.becker at ens-lyon.org>
>   * resolve issue114: allow hunk-splitting in revert
>   The UI is stolen from record-hunk-splitting and therefore subpar. It
> should be checked by native english-speakers and non-programmers.
> 
> Mon Nov  1 17:14:45 CET 2010  Florent Becker <florent.becker at ens-lyon.org>
>   * resolve issue1970: allow ssh:// urls
> 
> Sun Oct 17 10:52:26 CEST 2010  Florent Becker <florent.becker at ens-lyon.org>
>   * make progress message in pull less silly looking
> 
> Thu Sep  2 12:46:17 CEST 2010  Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net>
>   * darcs show tags --repo (instead of --repodir).
> 
> Fri Sep 17 23:06:53 CEST 2010  Adolfo Builes <builes.adolfo at googlemail.com>
>   * Solve issue1923: cache mechanism warns about sources outside your
> control
> 
> Wed Aug 25 19:30:45 CEST 2010  Dmitry Astapov <dastapov at gmail.com>
>   * Fix for issue1932
>   Do _not_ check for colons in "isRelative" - everything is covered
>   inside Add.lhs and governed by use of "--reserved-ok" option.
> 
>   Replace isRelative and isAbsolute with functions from System.FilePath
>   for correct handling of platform specifics.
> 
> Wed Aug 25 17:21:35 CEST 2010  Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net>
>   * Raise base package dependency to >= 4 (keeping it < 5).
>   We now require GHC 6.10.x or higher.
> 
> Fri Aug 13 07:54:54 CEST 2010  Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com>
>   * dramatically improve the parser performance
>   This puts the parser's performance back to where it was before the
>   move to a Parsec-like API.  The cruxt of the fix was to implement
>   linesStartingWith as a primitive instead of implementing it using
>   other parser primitives.  Several other tricks are included, such as
>   using strict tuples that are partially specialized.
> 
> Sun Aug 15 23:13:08 CEST 2010  Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net>
>   * Restore obliterate output options.
> 
>   They were removed for Darcs 2.5, but we can keep them in unstable
>   and resolve the underlying bug instead.
> 
>   rolling back:
> 
>   Sun Aug 15 20:20:10 BST 2010  Reinier Lamers <tux_rocker at reinier.de>
>     * resolve issue1924: remove output options of obliterate
> 
>        ./tests/issue1909-unrecord-O-misses-tag.sh ->
> ./tests/failing-issue1909-unrecord-O-misses-tag.sh
>       M ./src/Darcs/Commands/Unrecord.lhs -3 +1
> 
> Sun Jul 18 13:33:53 CEST 2010  Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net>
>   * Resolve issue1530: allow user to pick from multiple email address.
>   If your global authors pref has more than one line in it, Darcs will
>   prompt you something like:
> 
>     You have saved the following email addresses to your global settings:
>     1. Fred Bloggs <fred at example.net>
>     2. Fred Bloggs <fred at home.example.tld>
>     3. BLOGGS Fred <fbloggs at example.com>
>     4. Other
>     Please select an email address for this repository.
> 
> Sat Aug  7 02:33:39 CEST 2010  builes.adolfo at googlemail.com
>   * Resolve issue 1599: automatically expire unused caches
> 
> Wed Jul 21 07:37:31 CEST 2010  Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li>
>   * resolve issue1896: enable witnesses for library
> 
> Fri Jul 23 15:18:47 CEST 2010  Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net>
>   * Fix deprecation warning on GHC.Handle in Exec module.
>   It looks like it was deprecated in GHC 6.12 along with the
>   Unicode-oriented rewrite.
> 
> Wed Aug  4 20:53:57 CEST 2010  Petr Rockai <me at mornfall.net>
>   * Re-enable packs and optimize --http.
> 
> Thu Jul 15 12:16:08 CEST 2010  Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net>
>   * Resolve issue1883: rename --patch-name option to --name.
>   This is usually used in darcs record in shorthand (-m) form.
>   This rename is aimed at eliminating the confusion with the --patch
>   matcher, which bites amend-record and rollback users.
> 