DarcsWeeklyNews/2008-10-23

News and discussions

  1. Enfranchising darcs! An update on the build systems question
  2. Darcs hacking sprint in 2 days!
  3. What does it mean to commute? Darcs hackers like to talk about ‘commuting’ patches all the time. But what does that mean? Jason explains and provides a tiny bit of code for us to play with
  4. darcsweb 1.1-rc1 Alberto Bertogli reports a release candidate for darcsweb 1.1, with support for darcs 2 repositories, and syntax highlight support if the pygments module is available
  5. First impressions of darcs. A Pythonista named Benjamin tries darcs out for the first time. Here are his likes and dislikes.
  6. Choosing a revision control system. Daniel Carerra compares darcs with Monotone, Mercurial and Bazaar. Daniel finds our “brilliant patch management” to be unique, but what can we learn from the others?

Reviewers

  • Jason Dagit

New contributors

  • Christian Kellermann
  • Salvatore Insalaco
    1. Garrett Morris

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue784 Salvatore Insalaco

Patches applied in the last week (66)

2008-10-22 David Roundy
  • make releaseVersion explicitly depend on the version, not Setup.hs.
  • remove unneeded cd .. from Setup.hs.
  • change setup.hs to Setup.hs in Setup.hs.
  • cut unused amInRepo from Setup.hs.
2008-10-21 Eric Kow
  • Do not recompute ChangeLog files at all.
  • Do not recompute ChangeLog (franchise).
  • Hard-code darcs-2.1.0 ChangeLog entries.
  • Rename tests/template so it doesn’t get deleted by make clean.
2008-10-22 Florent Becker
  • Allow empty matchers in Patch.Match
2008-10-22 Eric Kow
  • Avoid using ls to get test files (makefile).
  • Simplify test targets in makefile.
  • Rollback accidentally applied darcs.cabal patch.
  • Add cabal file modified from Petr and Gwern’s cabalisation branch.
  • Simplify darcs.cabal.in and add more precise dependencies.
  • Simplify author field in darcs.cabal.in.
2008-10-21 David Roundy
  • don’t install franchise while testing.
  • make pull work with multiple –repodirs.
2008-10-21 Chistian Kellermann
  • call $(MAKE) instead of ‘make’, because GNUMake is not called ‘make’ everywhere
2008-10-20 Eric Kow
  • Add a darcs-nightly target to the makefile.
2008-10-21 David Roundy
  • prefer recursive acronymn to embarrassing one
2008-10-21 Eric Kow
  • Create the darcs.cabal file in franchise.
  • Add a template for building the darcs.cabal file.
2008-10-19 Salvatore Insalaco
  • resolve issue784: fix file handle leak and check for exceptions on process running.
2008-10-14 Eric Kow
  • Reenable some tests under Windows now that we are ignoring setCooked errors.
2008-10-20 David Roundy
  • avoid needless work in Setup.hs
  • enable franchise build tests under wine 1.0.
  • enable test of franchise build.
  • only build ChangeLog if we’re in a darcs repository.
  • remove dependence on haskell98 package from preproc.hs and make_changelog.hs.
  • we don’t need to announce we’re on windows, just log it.
  • reorganize and comment ./Setup.hs flags.
  • simplify checking for windows using franchise.
  • test for endianness using franchise.
  • fix test-franchise-build.sh to work with renamed Setup.hs.
2008-10-18 Eric Kow
  • Capitalise Setup.hs for consistency.
2008-10-17 David Roundy
  • add CURSES test to setup.hs.
  • half-resolve issue1138: make it possible in setup.hs to not use -Werror.
  • use unlessFlag in setup.hs to simplify haskeline check.
  • add haskeline test to setup.hs.
  • clean up setup.hs by using lookForModule instead of catching exceptions.
  • add test for siginfo.h (which shows up on SunOS maybe?)
  • clean up test-franchise-build.sh a bit more…
  • clean up test-franchise-build.sh
  • clean up setup.hs configure a bit.
2008-10-12 Dmitry Kurochkin
  • Fix curl version in setup.hs.
2008-10-11 David Roundy
  • avoid re-checking for windows.
  • setup.hs: don’t fail if darcs doesn’t yet exist.
  • fix spelling error in setup.hs.
  • make setup.hs look for libcurl
  • ratify use of readFile in setup.hs
  • add script for testing the franchise build.
  • add franchise setup file.
  • on windows, try renameFile before deleting target file.
2008-10-11 Dmitry Kurochkin
  • Simplify Darcs.Lock.withDir.
  • Do not remove temporary directories if DARCS_KEEP_TMPDIR environment variable is set.
2008-10-10 David Roundy
  • eliminate autogeneration of Workaround.hs.
2008-10-17 J. Garrett Morris
  • Add import list for System.Process in Exec.lhs
2008-10-15 Dmitry Kurochkin
  • Use command_control_list directly in run_the_command.
  • Fix imports in Darcs.ArgumentDefaults.
  • Refactor Darcs.ArgumentDefaults to use command_control_list directly.
  • Refactor Darcs.Commands, move command run code to Darcs.RunCommand.
  • Remove unused extended_usage.
  • Use help_cmd instead of usage in main.
  • Use help_cmd directly in main.
  • Refactor ‘darcs –commands’ to list_available_commands.
2008-10-15 Thorkil Naur
  • fix Submitting patches to darcs with respect to send -u