DarcsWeeklyNews/2009-07-19

News and discussions

  1. Since the last DWN, Petr Rockai released 3 betas, the last one being
    focussed on fixing bugs under Windows :

* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-July/020371.html ~ - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-July/020409.html - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-July/020435.html

  1. Petr also issued two posts (7 and 8) about his Summer of Code work
    on fast darcs:

* http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_progress_7.html ~ - http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_progress_8.html

  1. Ashley Moran gave a presentation of darcs at the North West Ruby
    USer Group, and put his slides online:

* http://aviewfromafar.net/2009/7/17/nwrug-darcs-presentation ~ - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-July/020499.html

  1. Ashley also started a (quite long) discussion about the different
    command names between darcs and the other DVCSs:
  1. Finally, Petr Rockai proposed a patch to gets rid of autoconf support
    in darcs, leaving cabal as the only build system:

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (63)

2009-07-15 Petr Rockai
  • TAG 2.2.98.4
  • Bump version to 2.2.98.4.
  • Bump the hashed-storage dependency to >= 0.3.6.
  • Implement getFileStatus, and use it instead of getSymbolicLinkStatus on win32.
  • Use mmapFilePS in gzReadFilePS to avoid lazy bytestring readFile.
  • Use DARCS_TESTING_PREFS_DIR in ShellHarness, since APPDATA override does not work.
  • Recognize a special DARCS_TESTING_PREFS_DIR envvar to override the global preference directory.
2009-07-16 Eric Kow
  • Note darcs 2.3 pre-release and darcs 2.2 stable versions in website.
  • Remove website automation from Makefile.
  • Rename index.html.in to index.html, forgoing website automation.
  • Fix type witnesses in Darcs.Gorsvet.
  • Remove bytestring flag from darcs.cabal.
  • Remove base3 flag from darcs.cabal.
  • LANGUAGE CPP pragma for Darcs.RunCommand and Darcs.TheCommands.
2009-06-29 Reinier Lamers
  • Move email unit tests to Darcs.Test module space
  • Teach cabal about new Darcs.Test modules
  • Move unit tests to Darcs.Test module space
  • Bound size of trees generated in Darcs.Patch.QuickCheck
  • Add some comments in Darcs.Patch.QuickCheck
2009-06-21 Petr Rockai
  • Avoid getSymbolicLinkStatus in mmap implementation, works around GHC 6.8.2 bug.
  • TAG 2.2.98.3
  • Bump version to 2.2.98.3.
  • Fix Wall warnings about applyToTree in Darcs.Gorsvet.
  • Fix segfaults when index is both invalid and in the wrong format.
  • Bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.3.5.
  • TAG 2.2.98.2
  • Include hspwd.hs in the distribution tarball.
  • Update build documentation in README.
  • Bump version to 2.2.98.2.
  • Use the index upgrade functionality from hashed-storage >= 0.3.4.
  • Bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.3.4.
2009-07-07 Eric Kow
  • Fix type witnesses in Darcs.Gorsvet.
2009-06-21 Petr Rockai
  • Factor out applyToTree in Gorsvet.
  • Provide readRecorded in Gorsvet as well.
2009-07-07 Eric Kow
  • Fix witnesses in GZCRCs type signatures.
  • Missing LANGUAGE CPP pragma in Darcs.Commands.GZCRCs.
  • Missing LANGUAGE pragma in Darcs.Global.
2009-07-01 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • add a comment to gzDecompress
  • further gzcrcs docs updates
  • make gzDecompress just return a flag to report corruption
  • fix (fairly harmless) bug in test script
  • Remove unnecessary pattern signature (it’s not H98)
  • improve wording of help text
  • add option to limit gzcrc check/repair to current repo
2009-06-26 Trent W. Buck
  • Add type signatures to all Darcs.Gorsvet top-level bindings.
  • Add type signature to Darcs.Gorsvet.applyToTentativePristine.
2009-06-23 Petr Rockai
  • TAG 2.2.98.1
  • Add missed GZCRCs module to distribution.
  • Use hackage zlib by default.
  • Resolve conflict with Ganesh’s gzcrc work.
2009-05-31 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • gzcrcs test
  • Update for zlib changes
  • Add command for repairing compressed files with corrupt CRCs
  • rename gzipDecompress for consistency, export it and isGZFile
  • generalise gzipDecompress interface
  • global for CRC warnings
  • break out gz detection from gzReadFilePS
2008-11-04 Trent W. Buck
  • Delete obsolete test_network target.
2009-05-05 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • update message and comments a bit
  • name change in zlib interface
  • reorganise a bit
  • put haddock where it belongs
  • detect and warn on patches with bad CRCs