[Haskell-cafe] Re: darcs 2.4 release candidate 2

2010-02-20 Thread Petr Rockai
Hi, Ben Franksen benjamin.frank...@bessy.de writes: This rc release is still notably slower on some operations than older releases. My test case is a large project named RTEMS (a real-time OS), that we wish to import into darcs (at work) to better track our own additions and modifications.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-04 Thread Petr Rockai
Hello! [snip] We're particularly interested in three things: (i) making Darcs faster (ii) building nice GUI tools and (iii) working seamlessly with SVN/Git repositories [snip] Both of these roles are called mentor in the Google system. Putting together a good team of mentors before

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Darcs and NFS Resolution

2009-09-12 Thread Petr Rockai
trentb...@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) writes: I'm also puzzled as to why this works -- surely mv(1) assumes POSIX semantics, too? I would be interested in seeing the exact error transcript, preferably as an issue on bugs.d.n. I'm not sure the problem has been diagnosed correctly. Well, not

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: darcs 2.3.0

2009-07-24 Thread Petr Rockai
Salvatore Insalaco kirb...@gmail.com writes: Great! Just a little note: MSYS isn't required to install Darcs with cabal on Windows, just to develop or run tests. Oh, good to know. I had no idea you could use cmd.exe to run cabal and darcs and that it would work. Yours, Petr.

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: darcs 2.3.0

2009-07-23 Thread Petr Rockai
Hello! I'd like to announce immediate availability of a new stable release of darcs, 2.3.0. There is a number of improvements and bugfixes over the previous stable release, 2.2. Moreover, work has been done to improve performance of darcs whatsnew for large repositories. As in the past, there

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cheap in-repo local branches (just needs implementation)

2009-07-22 Thread Petr Rockai
Hi, Grant Husbands darcsus...@grant.x43.net writes: 1. When you unpull old patches or reorder patches, Darcs alters existing patch files. This will break other branches that share the same files. Not true, since the filenames are fully determined by the file content. Hashed repositories will

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cheap in-repo local branches (just needs implementation)

2009-07-22 Thread Petr Rockai
Grant Husbands darcsus...@grant.x43.net writes: The original note that I should have quoted was from Max Battcher: : Additionally, there would be other useful management tools : (``darcs-branch list``, ``darcs-branch remove`` (or unfreeze)). I think : that these four commands could be done

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: darcs 2.3 beta 4

2009-07-15 Thread Petr Rockai
Hi again! We have decided to delay the release cycle slightly for 2.3 and release another beta. The primary reason for this is our Windows support -- I would like to invite all Windows users to install darcs-beta and give it a ride. If you have a working cabal-install, all you need to do is run:

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: darcs 2.3 beta 2

2009-07-09 Thread Petr Rockai
Hello! Two weeks passed and it is about time to release darcs 2.3 beta 2 (it's already a day late, sorry about that). As with beta 1, there is only a single installation package for this release of darcs: cabalised source. (Please note that the final version with also come with the legacy

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: darcs 2.3 beta 1

2009-06-24 Thread Petr Rockai
Hi! I'd like to announce immediate availability of a first beta release of darcs 2.3. There is a number of improvements and bugfixes over the last stable release (2.2). Moreover, work has been done on performance of darcs whatsnew for large repositories. This has also introduced a slight risk of

[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] Darcs 2.2.0.

2009-01-16 Thread Petr Rockai
Hi all! I am happy to announce general availability of darcs 2.2.0. Getting the release --- For this release, we have decided to provide two flavours, depending on the build system used: 1) The source tarball, http://www.darcs.net/darcs-2.2.0.tar.gz, which can be built using