DarcsWeeklyNews/2009-09-20

News and discussions

  1. Ganesh Sittampalam sent patches enabling a long-asked feature, edition of ~ patches at record time. Review is underway:

* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021452.html ~ - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021487.html

  1. Eric Kow modified the roadmap for darcs 2.4, now focussing on handling ~ hashed repositories efficiently and meeting the needs of the GHC team:

* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021357.html ~ - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021370.html - http://wiki.darcs.net/Roadmap

  1. Eric also met researchers working into Operational Transformation, and ~ wrote a report of this exchange, aiming at making people of collaborative editing and revision control speak together and in a common language:

* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021382.html ~ - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021307.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1300 Kamil Dworakowski
issue1582 Salvatore Insalaco

Patches applied in the last week (22)

2009-09-19 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • add canonization function for FL Prim
  • add substitution mechanism for PatchChoices
  • camelCase recently added functions
  • Add utility code for editing text
  • break out and export run_editor utility function
  • add “parallel pairs”
2009-09-17 Salvatore Insalaco
  • Resolve issue1582: bump required hashed-storage version to 0.3.8, to fix Windows-related file deletion errors.
2009-09-09 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • change the type of gcau to reflect its behaviour
  • make type of checkUnrelatedRepos more general
2009-09-17 Kamil Dworakowski
  • resolve issue1300: logfile deleted on unsucessful record
  • modify issue1300 test to fail for the right reason
2009-09-16 Eric Kow
  • Accept issue1610: bug in get_extra with darcs 1 semantics only.
  • Accept issue1609: Operational Transformations TP2 on conflict marking.
2009-09-15 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • relicense Darcs.Commands.GZCRCs as BSD3
2009-09-16 Petr Rockai
  • Fix a (somewhat bogus) unused-module warning in Ssh.
  • Re-implement haskell_policy in terms of hlint.
2009-09-13 Kamil Dworakowski
  • test that tentative leftover is cleared
  • extend issue1406 test
  • regression test for amend-record with failed test
2009-09-06 Reinier Lamers
  • Fix locale switching in emailformat.sh test
  • Remove home-grown UTF-8 decoder, use utf8-string instead
2009-09-13 Trent W. Buck
  • Fix a typo László reported months ago.