DarcsWeeklyNews/2012-05-14
News and discussions
Darcs 2.8.1 was released, the only change is a build dependency that will make it buildable with the next Haskell Platform:
Meanwhile in HEAD, a new test strategy has been implemented:
On the developers’ mailing list, we are discussing how to make the darcs development process more friendly:
Issues resolved in the last week (3)
- issue1921 Owen Stephens
- return Nothing in splitOnTag if the tag isn’t in the patchset
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1921
- issue2095 Ganesh Sittampalam
- avoid new GHC encoding behaviour using a global setting
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2095
- issue2161 Owen Stephens
- don’t use a separate type-variable for recorded/tentative in WhatsNew
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2161
Patches applied in the last week (77)
- 2012-05-14 Simon Michael
- home page: 2.8.1 release, trim news
- 2012-04-01 Ganesh Sittampalam
- enable issue1763 test on Windows as it seems to work
- resolve conflicts in GHC encodings fix
- resolve issue2095: avoid new GHC encoding behaviour using a global setting
- resolve conflict between issue2161 fix and witness macro removal
- 2012-03-21 Owen Stephens
- resolve issue2161 - don’t use a separate type-variable for recorded/tentative in WhatsNew
- 2012-05-12 Simon Michael
- home page: link hosting sites as suggested by Radoslav Dorcik
- 2012-04-21 Marc Simpson
- Add new ‘usageInfo’ implementation (Darcs.Usage); employ in Darcs.Command.
- 2012-05-12 Guillaume Hoffmann
- Accept issue2138 whatsnew –summary not reporting conflicts
- fix duplicate appearance of darcs test in manual
- fix failing test for issue2100
- make exit code of darcs add non-zero if any adds fail
- 2012-01-19 Ganesh Sittampalam
- resolve conflict in version number
- TAG 2.9.1
- bump version to 2.9.1
- 2011-09-07 Eric Kow
- Accept issue2100: darcs add should move on from first failure.
- 2012-05-10 Simon Michael
- home page: trim news
- home page: update news
- site: more css color cleanup
- home page: or tweak
- site: border color fix
- site: css cleanups, pre bottom border
- home page: move or
- site: underline links only on hover
- update Summersault thanks per markstos
- home page: box shadow for examples, add the dark bg style but don’t use it
- home page: less top padding, splash fits on iphone screen
- home page: download box shadow
- 2012-04-11 Owen Stephens
- Use a couple of @-patterns in Patch.Depends
- Rename getTagsRight -> getUncovered, and move helpers into where block.
- More tweaking of haddock of splitOnTag in Patch.Depends
- Change name of infoAndDeps and add haddock to better express intent
- Tweak/add more haddock to Patch.Depends
- Reduce some duplication and tweak identifier names in Patch.Depends
- Rename eatOne -> unwrapOneTagged and extract common code in Patch.Depends
- Tidy up and style changes for Exec
- Indentation and line-wrapping in English
- Add some Haddock and tweak some identifier names in Patch.Depends
- Fixup a couple of occurences of with_partial_intersection in Patch.Depends
- Resolve issue1921: return Nothing in splitOnTag if the tag isn’t in the patchset
- Tweak issue1921 test to check for graceful failure
- Tweak a few identifiers and implementation of helpers for getTagsRight
- Remove unused getPatchesInTag function from Patch.Depends
- Rename and refactor simpleTag in Patch.Depends, to better express intent
- A few more operator spacing tidy-ups in Patch.Depends
- Accept issue1921: attempting to apply a patch bundle based on missing tag dies.
- Tidy/style Patch.Depends
- 2012-05-11 Michael Hendricks
- Fix utf8 test for rollback –no-record default
- 2012-04-29 Florent Becker
- Tweak rollback help
- Give feedback when no hunks are selected in rollback –no-record
- Change rollback help to reflect –no-record as the default
- Make rollback –no-record the default
- 2012-05-05 Yuriy Vostrikov
- Fix “darcs diff” handling of directory argument.
- 2012-05-04 Michael Hendricks
- Accept Bitcoin donations via CoinCard
- 2012-04-01 Florent Becker
- Make findUncommon and findCommonWithThem into findCommonAndUncommon
- More precise witnesses for with_partial_intersection
- in with_partial_intersection, we only need to assert that the middle witness (wA) is correct
- 2012-03-30 Owen Stephens
- Add failing test for issue2047.
- 2012-05-02 Simon Michael
- home page: browsable darcs repo renamed to darcs-screened
- home page: anchor fix
- home page: drop “The” from the sidelinks
- home page: donate link in the footer
- home page: more linkage, wording tweaks
- stylesheet indentation
- shrink h1 font a tad
- home page: fix confusing comment
- home page: wording
- home page: merge two example sections
- home page: try more linkage in quick start intro
- home page: polish
- home page: wording
- home page polish
- home page clarifications, incorporate Florent Becker’s feedback
- home page: wasteful but stylish whitespace, we’re scrolling anyway
- Smart -> Simple in slogan
- new home page layout and content
- 2012-03-15 Owen Stephens
- Changes –xml would incorrectly report the originating patch of a given filename (in the case of renames)