News and discussions

1. The fourth Darcs hacking sprint has just ended! A dozen of Darcs developers were present at Zurich for three days. Before a full-length report is posted, you can consult the wiki for a rough outline of the work done:

   • http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2010/03/darcs-team-at-zurihac.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-03

2. GHC version support was discussed in depth, and it was decided that Darcs would only be guaranteed to compile with the last two stable branches of GHC:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023269.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023323.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Development/Policy

Issues resolved in the last week (5)

issue643 Guillaume Hoffmann

• darcs send -o outputs remote repo email address
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue643

issue1456 Guillaume Hoffmann

• by using Tar and GZip haskell modules for dist
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1456

issue1473 mail@stefanwehr.de

• annotate command accepts “.” and treats “” as invalid input
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1473

issue1750 Eric Kow

• uncover help text for darcs show pristine.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1750

issue1767 Ganesh Sittampalam

• send CRC warnings to stderr
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1767

Patches applied in the last week (25)

2010-03-20 Ganesh Sittampalam

• add –keep-date option to amend-record

2010-03-21 Reinier Lamers

• Resolve conflict between tar dependency and hashed-storage bump

2010-03-21 Salvatore Insalaco

• Bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.4.8

2010-03-20 Luca Molteni

• Accept issue1765: recursive remove on root

2010-03-20 Guillaume Hoffmann

• Resolve issue643 darcs send -o outputs remote repo email address
• useless string concatenation

2010-03-20 Florent Becker

• Add –match option to apply

2010-03-20 Ganesh Sittampalam

• use library function ‘not’ for checking failure

2010-03-20 mail@stefanwehr.de

• Resolve issue1473: annotate command accepts “.” and treats “” as invalid input

2010-03-20 Petr Rockai

• Only use stderr in install-deps, avoiding stderr/stdout interleaving issues.
• Pass the install-deps options down to second cabal install call as well.
• We also need tar to build witnesses.

2010-03-20 Guillaume Hoffmann

• make dist.sh test check the archive created by dist
• resolve issue1456 by using Tar and GZip haskell modules for dist

2010-03-19 Stefan Wehr

• Removed -cpp flag as suggested by HLint

2010-03-18 Eric Kow

• New bugtracker reporting page.

2010-03-18 Jason Dagit

• replace if-statement with guard in elegant_merge

2010-02-21 Eric Kow

• Resolve issue1750: uncover help text for darcs show pristine.
• Correct online help text for aliases of subcommands.

2010-01-20 Petr Rockai

• Augment the .boring file to cover the generated manual bits.

2010-03-15 Reinier Lamers

• Update tests/README.test_maintainers.txt to cabalized build system
• Include tests/README.test_maintainers.txt in distribution tarballs

2010-03-15 Eric Kow

• Fix update_roundup.pl for the case where only one patch is applied.

2010-03-14 Ganesh Sittampalam

• resolve issue1767: send CRC warnings to stderr

2010-03-14 Eric Kow

• Fix my posthook test (sorry!).