Looks fine to me. How's this, Janis? On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 05:28:03PM -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote: > On 2008.04.24 07:50:00 -0700, David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled 4.5K > characters: > > Any volunteers to write the HCAR entry for darcs? > > > > David > > I guess we could just edit the '07 entry, to look like this: > > -----
Darcs is a distributed revision control system written in Haskell. In darcs, every copy of your source code is a full repository, which allows for full operation in a disconnected environment, and also allows anyone with read access to a darcs repository to easily create their own branch and modify it with the full power of darcs’ revision control. Darcs is based on an underlying theory of patches, which allows for safe reordering and merging of patches even in complex scenarios. For all its power, darcs remains very easy to use tool for every day use because it follows the principle of keeping simple things simple. 2008 has seen some major milestones reached in the development of Darcs: years of development of Darcs-2 culminated in a recent release of Darcs 2.0.0. Darcs 2.0.0.0 introduces a number of new features and import bug fixes: most notably, it fixes the 'conflict bug' by supporting a new repository format; adds hashed repositories for increased speed; and integrates a global cache for faster downloading of patches, among numerous other improvements. In the 1.x branch of Darcs, since the last HCAR, support for GHC 6.8.x was added. Related Darcs programs like Trac support and Darcswatch also are worth checking out. Darcs has also seen a revamp of its infrastructure - a consolidation of the stable/unstable development repositories to a single one, separation of functions for the two mailing lists, and so on. Future work for Darcs will center around building interesting new features using the new repository format; further optimizations and code cleanup; improving testing of Darcs and adding buildbots; and finishing adding in use of 'type witnesses', which will offer even more static type guarantees of correct functionality. Patches great and small would be heartily welcome! Darcs is free software licensed under the GNU GPL. > --- > > I think I've covered most of what's been interesting lately - zooko's > buildbots, nomeata's Darcswatch, lispy's type witnesses, my own humble > optimization work, the more notable Darcs-2 features, and so on. > > _______________________________________________ > darcs-devel mailing list (AUTOMATIC POSTINGS ONLY PLEASE!) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
