DarcsWeeklyNews/2009-03-22

News and discussions

  1. A big THANK YOU for the 23 donors of the darcs fundraising drive.
    We managed to raise $1000 for darcs in one week!

* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018447.html ~ - http://darcs.net/donations.html

  1. This money is going to be put into use very soon:
  2. Discussions about reusing the curl bindings present on hackage instead of ~ darcs’ own. The author, Sigbjorn Finne, has been contacted for some improvements on the bindings:
  1. Darcs was not accepted as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organisation, ~ but we still may fit as a Haskell.org project:

* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018516.html ~ - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018532.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1358 Reinier Lamers
issue1393 Trent W. Buck

Patches applied in the last week (15)

2008-12-09 David Roundy
  • cut confusing use of the Reader monad from Printer.
  • eliminate gratuitous use of Reader monad in Printer.
  • use exitWith under record, when no patches are selected (to not run posthook).
  • clean up Depends a wee tad
2009-03-17 Trent W. Buck
  • Refactor “darcs replace” help.
  • Consistently use EMPHASIS (not emphasis) in help.
2009-02-14 David Roundy
  • fix bug in put of darcs-1 format repositories.
2009-03-15 Trent W. Buck
  • Resolve issue1393: swap “darcs mv” and “darcs move”.
2009-03-16 Eric Kow
  • Fix a minor conflict between Reinier’s and my patches.
2009-03-15 Reinier Lamers
  • Kill unused imports in External.hs
  • resolve issue1358: encode non-ASCII characters in mail headers
  • Add tests for email header formatting
2009-03-16 Petr Rockai
  • Make the curl/http flags reflect exactly what darcs is built with.
2009-03-15 Eric Kow
  • Accept issue1396: darcs does not detect changepref conflicts.
2009-03-16 Petr Rockai
  • Announce repository format before running the testsuite for it.