Von: David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Looks fine to me. How's this, Janis?
Fine, Thanks. > 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 > allowsfor full operation in a disconnected environment, and also > allows anyone > with read access to a darcs repository to easily create their own > branchand modify it with the full power of darcs’ revision > control. Darcs is based on an underlying theory of patches, which > allowsfor 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 > bugfixes: most notably, it fixes the 'conflict bug' by supporting a > newrepository format; adds hashed repositories for increased speed; > andintegrates 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 > supportand 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 > repositoryformat; 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
