DarcsWeeklyNews/2008-11-22

News and discussions

  1. Announcing darcs 2.1.2. Eric has released darcs 2.1.2. You can also find darcs 2.1.2 on hackage.
  2. Character-based patch type. Andrew Robbins is developing a library for character level diffs that would allow for indentation and word patches as well as other fine granularity patches.
  3. Digital Fountain Codes for Patch Distribution. Tom Hawkins has a proposal for using Digital Fountain Codes as a fast distributed protocol for transfering data between darcs repositories.
  4. Camp Update. Ian Lynagh has started an irregular news letter about Camp. Looks like he’s accomplished a lot. Take a look at Camp today.
  5. Darcs Oversight Committee (Software Freedom Conservancy). Eric has proposed we create an oversight committee as part of joining the Software Freedom Conservancy.

Reviewers

Thanks to our patch reviewers this week!

  • Christian Kellermann
  • Eric Kow
  • Dmitry Kurochkin
  • Trent W. Buck

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Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1043 David Roundy
issue1101 Christian Kellermann
issue1117 Christian Kellermann

Patches applied in the last week (44)

2008-11-22 Eric Kow
  • Point to new shorter URL for binaries wiki page.
  • Rollback IFS removal
2008-11-21 Jason Dagit
  • Appease ghc-6.10 witnesses in Real.hs.
  • Appease ghc-6.10 witnesses in Prim.lhs.
2008-11-21
  • tests/*.sh: rm vitiated IFS variable
2008-11-21 Eric Kow
  • documentation/website: Fix bigpage compilation.
2008-11-20 Dmitry Kurochkin
  • Use let to avoid duplication in Darcs.Patch.Real.
2008-11-19 Eric Kow
  • Make darcs.pdf just a copy of darcs_print.pdf and likewise for darcs.ps
  • Remove seemingly unused ps/pdf targets
2008-11-20 Thorkil Naur
  • Remove OPTIONS_GHC that GHC-6.10.1 warns as “deprecated”
2008-11-20 Christian Kellermann
  • add newlines to the default entries so we don’t break the file
2008-11-20 Jason Dagit
  • bump package version number for hackage
  • correctly add Distribution/ShellHarness.hs to darcs.cabal
  • sdist errors on trying to move tests/shell_harness
  • bump version number in darcs.cabal
2008-11-20 Eric Kow
  • issue1043b now also resolved by David
2008-11-19 David Roundy
  • resolve issue1043: avoid use of sort_coalesceFL in Patch.Real.
2008-10-25 Christian Kellermann
  • code clarification
  • resolve issue1117: warn if file does not exist in whatsnew
2008-11-18 Thorkil Naur
  • shell_harness.hs hSetBuffering stdout NoBuffering
2008-11-18 Trent W. Buck
  • Harden release/STATE munger.
2008-11-15 Christian Kellermann
  • resolve issue1101: also display cc’ed recipients
2008-11-18 Dmitry Kurochkin
  • Move make_repo_name after identifyRepoFormat in get.
2008-11-18 Eric Kow
  • Trivially extend unit test to work with Pavel’s extended make_email.
2008-11-17
  • tests/README: add a section warning about use of ‘yes’ and ‘find’
  • tests/*: per kowey, replace all portable_pwd with hspwd
  • tests/lib: scrap portable_pwd definition for alias to hspwd
2008-11-18 Trent W. Buck
  • Replace workaround with fix (Windows’ sort doesn’t have -o).
  • Refactor Cabal package description.
  • Consistently punctuate cabal flag descriptions.
2008-11-17 Pavel Shramov
  • Test for darcs send with –in-reply-to option
  • Add –in-reply-to flag for send command
2008-11-17
  • in make file, quote the “$(DARCS_VERSION_WITH_PATCHES)” variable
2008-11-17 Trent W. Buck
  • Darcs works with regex-compat 0.92.
2008-11-16 David Roundy
  • don’t run posthook if the command terminated with exitWith.
2008-11-17
  • tests/README.test_maintainers.txt: add a section on the use of lib
  • tests/*.sh: remove “set -ev” from all callers of lib
  • tests/lib: rm shebang header
  • mv lib.sh -> lib & update callers
2008-11-17 Eric Kow
  • Add –disable-unit to configure script
2008-11-15
  • tests/*.sh: factor out windows abortion
  • tests/*.sh: factour out ~61 of the ‘not’ definitions to lib.sh
  • tests/*.sh: factor out definitions of portable_pwd to lib.sh
  • +tests/lib.sh: library for test scripts