[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #13

News and discussions -------------------- 1. Announcing darcs 2.1.2. Eric has released darcs 2.1.2. You can also find darcs 2.1.2 on hackage. * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015915.html * http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/darcs 2. Character-based patch type. Andrew Robbins is developing a library for character level diffs that would allow for indentation and word patches as well as other fine granularity patches. * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015976.html 3. Digital Fountain Codes for Patch Distribution. Tom Hawkins has a proposal for using Digital Fountain Codes as a fast distributed protocol for transfering data between darcs repositories. * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/016016.html 4. Camp Update. Ian Lynagh has started an irregular news letter about Camp. Looks like he's accomplished a lot. Take a look at Camp today. * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/016044.html 5. Darcs Oversight Committee (Software Freedom Conservancy). Eric has proposed we create an oversight committee as part of joining the Software Freedom Conservancy. * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/016107.html Reviewers --------- Thanks to our patch reviewers this week! - Christian Kellermann - Eric Kow - Dmitry Kurochkin - Trent W. Buck Want to receive recognition for helping with Darcs? Add yourself to the patch review team today so that Eric knows to send patches your way. * http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/DarcsTeam Issues resolved in the last week (3) ------------------------------------ issue1043 David Roundy * avoid use of sort_coalesceFL in Patch.Real. * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1043 issue1101 Christian Kellermann * also display cc'ed recipients * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1101 issue1117 Christian Kellermann * warn if file does not exist in whatsnew * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1117 Patches applied in the last week (44) ------------------------------------- 2008-11-22 Eric Kow - Point to new shorter URL for binaries wiki page. - Rollback IFS removal 2008-11-21 Jason Dagit - Appease ghc-6.10 witnesses in Real.hs. - Appease ghc-6.10 witnesses in Prim.lhs. 2008-11-21 gwern0 at gmail.com - tests/*.sh: rm vitiated IFS variable 2008-11-21 Eric Kow - documentation/website: Fix bigpage compilation. 2008-11-20 Dmitry Kurochkin - Use let to avoid duplication in Darcs.Patch.Real. 2008-11-19 Eric Kow - Make darcs.pdf just a copy of darcs_print.pdf and likewise for darcs.ps - Remove seemingly unused ps/pdf targets 2008-11-20 Thorkil Naur - Remove OPTIONS_GHC that GHC-6.10.1 warns as "deprecated" 2008-11-20 Christian Kellermann - add newlines to the default entries so we don't break the file 2008-11-20 Jason Dagit - bump package version number for hackage - correctly add Distribution/ShellHarness.hs to darcs.cabal - sdist errors on trying to move tests/shell_harness - bump version number in darcs.cabal 2008-11-20 Eric Kow - issue1043b now also resolved by David 2008-11-19 David Roundy - resolve issue1043: avoid use of sort_coalesceFL in Patch.Real. 2008-10-25 Christian Kellermann - code clarification - resolve issue1117: warn if file does not exist in whatsnew 2008-11-18 Thorkil Naur - shell_harness.hs hSetBuffering stdout NoBuffering 2008-11-18 Trent W. Buck - Harden release/STATE munger. 2008-11-15 Christian Kellermann - resolve issue1101: also display cc'ed recipients 2008-11-18 Dmitry Kurochkin - Move make_repo_name after identifyRepoFormat in get. 2008-11-18 Eric Kow - Trivially extend unit test to work with Pavel's extended make_email. 2008-11-17 gwern0 at gmail.com - tests/README: add a section warning about use of 'yes' and 'find' - tests/*: per kowey, replace all portable_pwd with hspwd - tests/lib: scrap portable_pwd definition for alias to hspwd 2008-11-18 Trent W. Buck - Replace workaround with fix (Windows' sort doesn't have -o). - Refactor Cabal package description. - Consistently punctuate cabal flag descriptions. 2008-11-17 Pavel Shramov - Test for darcs send with --in-reply-to option - Add --in-reply-to flag for send command 2008-11-17 zooko at zooko.com - in make file, quote the "$(DARCS_VERSION_WITH_PATCHES)" variable 2008-11-17 Trent W. Buck - Darcs works with regex-compat 0.92. 2008-11-16 David Roundy - don't run posthook if the command terminated with exitWith. 2008-11-17 gwern0 at gmail.com - tests/README.test_maintainers.txt: add a section on the use of lib - tests/*.sh: remove "set -ev" from all callers of lib - tests/lib: rm shebang header - mv lib.sh -> lib & update callers 2008-11-17 Eric Kow - Add --disable-unit to configure script 2008-11-15 gwern0 at gmail.com - tests/*.sh: factor out windows abortion - tests/*.sh: factour out ~61 of the 'not' definitions to lib.sh - tests/*.sh: factor out definitions of portable_pwd to lib.sh - +tests/lib.sh: library for test scripts -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/attachments/20081122/82b99d95/attachment-0001.htm