This is a catch-up edition of darcs weekly news. Is DWN back for good? Stay tuned...
News and discussions -------------------- 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 ----------- 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) ------------------------------------ issue1292 Judah Jacobson * re-encode line input from the Haskeline backend. * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1292 Patches applied in the last week (16) ------------------------------------- 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. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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