DarcsWeeklyNews/2008-08-27

News and discussions
Issues resolved in the last two weeks (5)
Patches applied in the last two weeks (69)

Hi everybody,

I thought it would be useful if we got back into the habit up summarising our weekly darcs activities. This is the first entry of what I hope to be Darcs Weekly News.

News and discussions

hacking sprint (25/26 October): We are now planning three sites for the upcoming darcs hacking sprint: Brighton (moved from Cambridge), Paris and Portland. More news as we finalise the venues in the next two weeks!
performance benchmarking: Eric is working on integrating performance regression testing into the darcs buildbot. The progress is slow but steady!
darcs 2 real world comparison: Jason analyses a comparison of darcs push between 1.0.9 and 2.0.2. http://blog.codersbase.com/2008/08/21/darcs-2-real-world-push-performance-evaluation/
darcs weekly news: Most of darcs weekly news is automated, but we still need human editors! To help out, darcs get http://code.haskell.org/darcs/darcs-news

Issues resolved in the last two weeks (5)

issue115 (Dmitry Kurochkin) match patches touching given files. http://bugs.darcs.net/issue115
issue823 (Dmitry Kurochkin) do not exit on keyboard interrupt when getting patches. http://bugs.darcs.net/issue823
issue936 (Dmitry Kurochkin) fix type witnesses configure check. http://bugs.darcs.net/issue936
issue950 (David Roundy) fix fix_filepath to work with –repodir (and add test demonstrating this). http://bugs.darcs.net/issue950
issue995 (Dmitry Kurochkin) changes –context : {–human-readable,–xml-output} have no effect. http://bugs.darcs.net/issue995

Patches applied in the last two weeks (69)

2008-08-25 Jason Dagit: minor refator to get_extra improve comments
2008-08-25 Eric Kow: Same ChangeLog entries since 2.0.2 Some more globally ignored changes.
2008-08-24 David Roundy: Simplify filepath handling, cutting lots of hardly-used code. don’t bother computing path when checking prereqs (since we now can handle looking at beginning/ending working directories). resolve issue950: fix fix_filepath to work with –repodir (and add test demonstrating this). eliminate fix_flag. add new framework for ensuring that certain arguments are converted to absolute paths. make Darcs.Lock functions accept FilePathLike arguments. refactor maybeMkSubPath very slightly. refactor repoPath very slightly. make makeAbsolute behavior match comment.
2008-08-22 Dmitry Kurochkin: Fix makeAbsolute to work with ‘../foo’ paths.
2008-08-22 David Roundy: move withCurrentDirectory, withTempDir and withPermDir rewrite mkAbsolutePath to be safe.
2008-08-22 Eric Kow: Changelog (ignore ‘Add a test entries’)
2008-08-22 David Roundy: resolve conflicts.
2008-08-19 Dmitry Kurochkin: Resolve issue936: fix type witnesses configure check. Use forkIO in URL module as suggested by Simon Marlow. Remove HTTP.copyUrl, integrate it to URL module. More URL module refactoring.
2008-08-22 Eric Kow: Canonize Nathaniel Filardo and Simon Marlow. Add test case for issue966 (from Dan Pascu’s bug report)
2008-08-21 David Roundy: remove trailing whitespace.
2008-08-21 Dmitry Kurochkin: Documentation for match touch primitive. Resolve issue115: match patches touching given files.
2008-08-22 Eric Kow: Remove unused FileSystem module.
2008-08-20 David Roundy: fix type witnesses in with_selected_patch_from_repo. clean up bugs functions (eliminate darcsBug.h).
2008-08-19 Jason Dagit: Fix a bug with incorrectly specified with_selecte_patch_from_repository.
2008-08-19 Dmitry Kurochkin: Remove HTTP.exists, use Autoconf.have_HTTP instead.
2008-08-19 David Roundy: fix improper use of bug in HTTP.
2008-08-19 Dmitry Kurochkin: Do not import HTTP module in Darcs.Bug, use bug and debugFail for error reporting in HTTP module.
2008-08-19 David Roundy: fix incompatibility with ghc 6.6. make scan_bundle create a lazy patch bundle. resolve conflicts with Darcs.Ordered change.
2008-08-15 Jason Dagit: replace separate_middle_last_from_first and separate_last_from_first_middle with get_choices correct a bug in with_selected_patches_from_repository refine type witnesses in SelectChanges make WhatsNew work with type witnesses major refactor of SelectChanges to work with type witnesses
2008-08-16 nwf@cs.jhu.edu: Move Darcs.Patch.Ordered to Darcs.Ordered since it isn’t patchy
2008-08-19 Simon Marlow: Fix use of threadWaitRead on Windows Fix Windows build
2008-08-17 Dmitry Kurochkin: URL module refactoring. Do not compile curl support if libwww is enabled. URL.hs: always import debugFail, again. URL.hs: call debugFail when download fails. URL.hs: debug messages. Spacing in Darcs/Commands/Changes.lhs Rename catchInt to catchInterrupt, better message when get is interrupted. Resolve issue995: changes –context : {–human-readable,–xml-output} have no effect.
2008-08-18 Eric Kow: Add test for issue1017 (as suggested by Bjorn Bringert)
2008-08-19 David Roundy: don’t print “Wrote patch to -” when writing patch to stdout. always send with context.
2008-08-18 Eric Kow: Tidy up known failing shell tests. Tidy up failing test for issue1013. Move hidden conflicts bug to tests directory. Add failing test for issue1012 (Simon Marlow).
2008-08-15 Dmitry Kurochkin: Resolve issue823: do not exit on keyboard interrupt when getting patches.
2008-08-14 David Roundy: fix buggy comments in bugs/identical-patches.sh.
2008-08-13 Eric Kow: Add Ian’s identical-patch test case.
2008-08-13 Dmitry Kurochkin: URL.hs: store only URL in waitToStart queue.
2008-08-14 Eric Kow: Add (failing) test for issue944.
2008-08-13 nwf@cs.jhu.edu: Split Cache mostly out of Darsc/Repository/Prefs into its own file (take 2)
2008-08-13 Jason Dagit: remove a few unsightly functions
2008-08-13 Dmitry Kurochkin: Fix URL module bug with pipelining enabled. Minor change to URL module. Enable pipelining by default, add –disable-pipelining option (issue838).