This is a catch-up edition of darcs weekly news.
Is DWN back for good?  Stay tuned...

News and discussions
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1. Darcs backend for Gitit.  Have a wiki?  Thanks to Gwern Branwern, you can
   now store the it in a darcs repository, change history and all.
   * http://bugs.darcs.net/msg7114
   * darcs get filestore from http://johnmacfarlane.net/repos/filestore

2. Darcs 2.2.0 released, with better Windows support, performance and
   libdarcs.  Release Manager Petr Ročkai has done a great job smoothly
   rolling out this release.  More news on 2.2.1 shortly.
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/017233.html

3. Patch-tag.com . Thomas Hartman has announced patch-tag.com, a darcs hosting
   site built on top of a Haskell stack.  Patch-tag is free for open source
   projects.  Prices for private repositories to be announced soon, with free
   trial hosting till April 2009.
   * http://patch-tag.com
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/017323.html

The backlog
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Things you have missed since the last darcs weekly news

1. zlib plans - Ganesh Sittampalam and Petr Ročkai have worked out "roadmap for
   migrating darcs over to the Haskell zlib library and dropping the direct C
   bindings completely" and fixing the any broken CRC errors in the process
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/016276.html

2. Benchmark results.  Here are the recent results from the Standard Darcs
   Benchmarks.  Thanks also to Nathan Gray for additional real world testing.
   What can /you/ do to make darcs faster?
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-December/016798.html
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-December/016892.html
   * darcs get http://code.haskell.org/darcs/darcs-benchmark

3. Thorkil Naur (Issue Manager) has outlined some thoughts for running the
   darcs issue tracker efficiently.  Thanks, Thorkil!
   * http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/BugTrackerIssueManagement

4. HLint report for darcs.  Neil Mitchell has set his HLint tool to work,
   producing lots of helpful advice to improve our coding style.  Try HLint
   today!
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-December/016671.html
   * http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/hlint/

5. TortoiseDarcs is back!  Kari Hoijarvi has dusted off the TortoiseDarcs
   (a Windows GUI).  His new version (2.0.1) works with both darcs 1 and 2.
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/016983.html
   * http://datafed.net/darcs/

6. vc-darcs.el version 1.9.  Juliusz Chroboczek has released version 1.9
   of vc-darcs, with support for Emacs 22 and darcs 2
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/016978.html
   * darcs get http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/repos/vc-darcs/

7. Focal: towards a conflict-free revision control system.  Jean-Philippe
   Bernardy and students propose a new theory of patches with no conflicting
   patches!  Instead, the internal representation for state is carefully
   chosen so that conflicting situations can co-exist.  They have also
   produced a toy implementation that you can play with
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-January/016988.html
   * http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bernardy/focal_Code_Anders_Petter.tar.gz
   * http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bernardy/AConcflictFreeVersionControlSystem.pdf

Issues resolved in the last week (1)
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issue1292 Judah Jacobson
 * re-encode line input from the Haskeline backend.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1292

Patches applied in the last week (16)
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2009-01-22 Bertram Felgenhauer
 - (cabal build) build 'witnesses' only with -ftype-witnesses
 - (cabal build) add two missing modules to darcs library

2009-01-22 Judah Jacobson
 - Tell the configure script to require haskeline>=0.6.0.

2009-01-22 Florent Becker
 - use forM_ from the standard library

2009-01-22 Eric Kow
 - Remove LANGUAGE GADTs pragma in Darcs.Show (GHC 6.6 compatibility)

2009-01-22 Duncan Coutts
 - Remove duplication in fields in the .cabal file
 - Remove unused ghc -threaded flag in library section

2009-01-22 Trent W. Buck
 - Clean up after shell harness.
 - Syntax highlighting for new-style NEWS entries.
 - NEWS for Darcs 2.2.0.
 - Use conventional name "NEWS" for "new in $version" notes.

2009-01-21 Judah Jacobson
 - Resolve issue1292: re-encode line input from the Haskeline backend.

2009-01-20 [email protected]
 - mv -fglasgow-exts to Darcs.Show

2009-01-18 Trent W. Buck
 - Remove obsolete import.
 - Refactor initial argument dispatcher.
 - Simplify some of my own code.

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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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