DarcsWeeklyNews/2009-03-15
News and discussions
- Darcs fundraising is already halfway! We have gathered more than
- $500 on our objective of $1000 to help developers attend the upcoming Haskell Hackaton. Spread the word!
* http://www.darcs.net/donations.html ~ - http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/84nyi/
- Support for libwww and curl/wget dropped, darcs now relies only on
- libcurl or on the Haskell HTTP module:
* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018147.html ~ - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018341.html
- Bertram Felgenhauer submitted a patch that greatly reduces memory
- usage of `darcs check` and `darcs repair`:
* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018244.html ~ - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018252.html
Issues resolved in the last week (3)
- issue1271 Trent W. Buck
- do not install two copies of darcs.pdf.
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1271
- issue1366 Trent W. Buck
- remove unreachable code for direct ncurses use.
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1366
- issue1379 Trent W. Buck
- remove libwww support.
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1379
Patches applied in the last week (33)
- 2009-03-13 Eric Kow
- Cabal: loosen HTTP package requirement.
- Cabal: allow -fhttp to co-exist with -fcurl.
- Remove support for calling wget/curl on the command line.
- 2009-03-13 Simon Michael
- drop the list_authors tool in favour of “darcs show authors”
- 2009-03-09 Reinier Lamers
- Add –user flag to configure in test pref
- 2009-03-14 Trent W. Buck
- Resolve issue1271: do not install two copies of darcs.pdf.
- Explicitly license more tests (as GPL2+).
- Mimic GNU cp’s arg format for “darcs mv”.
- Refactor “darcs show files” help.
- Mention “darcs query”.
- Refactor “darcs show bug” short description.
- Refactor “darcs get” help.
- Refactor “darcs init” help.
- Refactor “darcs apply” short description.
- Refactor “darcs show authors” help.
- Refactor command_alias help.
- Leverage existing command_alias macro.
- Refactor “darcs remove” help.
- 2009-03-14 Eric Kow
- Add status update to donations page.
- 2009-03-12 Nicolas Pouillard
- New updated Zsh completion script (c.f. issue 1301)
- 2009-03-12 Simon Michael
- another fix for the man page target, it’s “darcs help manpage”
- 2009-03-12 Trent W. Buck
- Resolve issue1366: remove unreachable code for direct ncurses use.
- Use standard library function `union` instead of custom `add_to_list`.
- Rearrange code to avoid unused imports and definitions.
- 2009-03-10 Bertram Felgenhauer
- Improve memory usage of darcs check and repair.
- Fix typo.
- 2009-03-10 Eric Kow
- Break cabal file up into sections, visually speaking.
- Fix ifdef error (inconsistent use of HAVE_LIBCURL/HAVE_CURL).
- Fix Makefile oversight in darcsman move.
- Fix Makefile oversight in libwww removal.
- 2009-03-06 Trent W. Buck
- Remove documentation references to libwww.
- Resolve issue1379: remove libwww support.
- Partially resolve issue1376: merge darcsman.hs into darcs(1).