DarcsWeeklyNews/2010-08-15

News and discussions

  1. Darcs 2.5 beta 3 was released:

  2. The next Darcs Hacking Sprint will take place at Orleans, France, the 15-17 of October:

  3. Version 0.1.9 of darcs-benchmark was released, including bugfixes and experimental support for comparison with git and mercurial:

  4. Adolfo Builes blogged about the end of his summer of code project. A summary of his project is available on the wiki:

Issues resolved in the last week (7)

issue1290 Eric Kow
issue1530 Eric Kow
issue1599 Adolfo Builes
issue1873 Petr Rockai
issue1896 Ganesh Sittampalam
issue1908 Petr Rockai
issue1909 Petr Rockai

Patches applied in the last week (49)

2010-08-13 Eric Kow
  • Reframe Darcs.Match.matchFirstPatchset documentation.
  • Improve module-level documentation for Darcs.Match.
  • Move Darcs.Match module-specific haddock to module level.
  • Resolve issue1290: support diff –index.
  • Fix issue1290 test.
2010-08-07 Petr Rockai
  • Resolve issue1909: generate correct context in unpull -O.
  • Accept issue1909: unrecord -O in a tagged repo makes a bad bundle.
2010-08-12 Eric Kow
  • Tweak complaint about DARCS_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT.
2010-08-11 Adolfo Builes
  • Add environment variable DARCS_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT
2010-08-12 Eric Kow
  • Tighten up section on per-repository caches a bit.
2010-08-11 Adolofo Builes
  • Adding information about cache handling to manual
2010-08-12 Eric Kow
  • Tweak title case for repository formats chapter for consistency.
2010-08-11 Adolfo Builes
  • Add DARCS_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT info to user manual
  • Correct error code for curl operation timeout
  • Adding some haddock to Cache.hs
2010-08-10 Eric Kow
  • Accept issue1913: buggy mapPrimFL.
2010-08-07 Jason Dagit
  • remove redundant imports in Patchy and Real
  • fix conflict in Bundle
  • remove try combinator from ReadMonads
  • micro optimizations to parser code
  • remove all uses of try from parser code
  • ReadMonads no longer exports maybeWork fix other modules to match
  • refactor Read to not rely on ‘work’
  • ReadMonads no longer exports myLex, clean up imports in Real
  • refactor Read to use myLex’
  • ReadMonads no longer exports alterInput and clean up a few warnings
  • cleanup import list of Patchy
  • remove peekInput from Real. peekInput no longer exported from ReadMonads
  • refactor Patchy to not use peekInput
  • refactor Read and ReadMonads to remove peekInput from Read
  • add utility functions to ReadMonads
  • tune the patch parser
2010-08-08 Petr Rockai
  • Resolve issue1908: try to create a global cache before checking its availability.
  • Add a “buildbot-try” script to contrib that submits local changes to buildbot.
  • Skip testing of issue1599 on old-fashioned repos.
2010-08-07 Adolfo Builes
  • Test for issue1599: expire unused caches
2010-08-08 Petr Rockai
  • Fail more verbosely in issue1879-same-patchinfo-uncommon.sh.
  • Also set binary mode on stderr (we already had stdin/stdout).
  • Do not fail when there’s debris in tests directory.
2010-07-18 Eric Kow
  • Resolve issue1530: allow user to pick from multiple email address.
  • Helper Darcs.Utils.askUserListItem to select from an arbitrary list.
  • Restyle issue1873 test and make it run in darcs 2.4.
2010-08-07 Petr Rockai
  • Add test for issue1873 (failed to read patch during apply).
  • Resolve issue1873: give nicer error when apply fails due to missing patches.
  • Rename findCommonAndUncommon to findUncommon (it does not find common).
  • Add a simple test for http get with packs.
  • Add a simple non-network test for darcs get over http.
2010-08-07 Adolfo Builes
  • Resolve issue 1599: automatically expire unused caches
2010-07-21 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • resolve issue1896: enable witnesses for library