News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.8.1 was released, the only change is a build dependency that will make it buildable with the next Haskell Platform:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-May/026506.html
   • http://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs-2.8.1

2. Meanwhile in HEAD, a new test strategy has been implemented:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-May/026503.html

3. On the developers’ mailing list, we are discussing how to make the darcs development process more friendly:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-devel/2012-May/013820.html

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)