Hi! On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:20:11 +0100, Petr Rockai wrote: > I'm happy to announce that tarballs of first pre-version of darcs 2.2 are now > ready for testing. There are two, one is produced by cabal and one by our > traditional make-based system. The more official, configure-and-make-based > tarball can be found at: > > http://repos.mornfall.net/darcs/darcs-2.2.0pre1.tar.gz
I've installed this one on my machine, thanks! > http://repos.mornfall.net/darcs/darcs-2.1.98.1.tar.gz > > I have used some "creative" versioning, since cabal refuses any non-numeric > pieces in the version string. Therefore, our consensus with Trent was to use: > > - x.98.y for a "pre y" version (or "alpha") > - x.99.y for a "rc y" version I was just thinking to forgo putting pre-releases or release candidates on hackage (people could just download the tarball). But the convention is sensible. It assumes that we'll be incrementing the 'x' on each 6-month release, which I think is fair enough. > I think this is much less ambiguous than the current practice of just > increasing the 4th digit by one for snapshots. So the state of the darcs 2.1.2.x snapshots is due to a miscommunication on my part. Namely, I had assumed that they would just literally be darcs 2.1.2 plus cabalisation, but had failed to communicate that assumption to Jason. As a result, darcs 2.1.2.x are actually in effect pre-releases of darcs 2.2. Indeed, something like darcs 2.1.98 would more clearly communicate the state of affairs. > Other than providing these tarballs, I have drafted a changelog: Good work! I was about to comment on issue numbers, but notice that you have spotted it too :-) > * Improvements in Windows support. (Salvatore Insalaco) With Thorkil's help as you mention below, it may be useful to have issue numbers associated with the ChangeLog entries. > 1) We need as many people to test both of these tarballs as possible. The > quality of 2.2 is directly dependent on amount of testing we can get for the > pre-releases. If *you* don't find the bugs, no-one will, and they will creep > into the final release. Thanks for your patience, time and bugreports! I've installed 2.2.0pre1 on my machine. How about you? > 2) It would be nice to have nicely formatted list of issues fixed between > 2.1.2 > and 2.2.0pre1. I suppose our Issue Manager (currently the hat is worn by > Thorkil) could produce such a list without too much hassle? Ideally, it'd > contain issue number, its title (summary) and possibly the author(s) of the > fix. Thanks! If it helps, you can do this by issuing a search command on the bug tracker website > 4) It'd be very helpful if someone with HackageDB account could upload the > cabal-based tarball (the one with funny version number). I'll have to get an > account sooner or later, but haven't gotten around to it. Ah, it's very easy; just mail [email protected] > 5) The currently last thing I can recall is that http://darcs.net should > probably be updated with this release somehow. I have no idea how is that > done. Kowey, can you help? Thanks! I'll look into this as soon as I can catch up with your patches. > PS: Kowey, I have added some patches in the release branch. Some of them might > be worth pulling back into mainline, others not. If you could review what you > deem appropriate for mainline and what not, that'd be great, so we avoid > superfluous divergence. They should be mostly trivial. As for the GNUmakefile > patch, please apply Trent's version he posted to the list. I will pull it into > branch and resolve the conflicts. Ta. Ok, but I ran into this yucky problem (!), which may be a manifestation of http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1159 darcs failed: Couldn't fetch `0000001963-b8534fc6584c421a2127b2eac0306c6853b5e22467567dd32a9c7fdd8111f430' in subdir pristine.hashed from sources: thisrepo:/here/eykk10/darcsImpl/branch-2.2 cache:/home/eykk10/.darcs/cache repo:http://repos.mornfall.net/darcs/branch-2.2 repo:/home/xrockai/dev/darcs/branch-2.2 thisrepo:/home/xrockai/dev/public/darcs/branch-2.2 repo:/home/xrockai/dev/darcs/unstable repo:http://darcs.net/unstable repo:http://darcs.net/stable repo:/home/darcs-stable/darcs thisrepo:/home/darcs-unstable/darcs Thoughts? -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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