"Sittampalam, Ganesh" <[email protected]> writes:
> Obviously source code documentation would be nice, but why is it > "show-stopping"? I consider it "show-stopping" in the sense that I keep having people on #gentoo-haskell asking me why they can't compile darcs 2.3.1 because that error comes up, and I have to explain to either disable documentation or downgrade Cabal (if they're still using <GHC-6.11). > Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: >> I really feel that bug 1720 [1] is a show-stopping bug for darcs, >> especially since it means that building Haddock for darcs with >> GHC-6.12.* isn't possible. >> >> [1] http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1720 >> >> I tried to make a fix, but didn't know enough of how darcs is >> documented to be able to do anything. >> >> >> Reinier Lamers <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> The darcs team would like to announce the immediate availability of >>> darcs 2.4 beta 1. darcs 2.4 will contain many improvements and >>> bugfixes compared to darcs 2.3.1. Highlights are the fast index-based >>> diffing which is now used by all darcs commands, and the interactive >>> hunk-splitting in darcs record. This beta is your chance to >>> test-drive >>> these improvements and make darcs even better. >>> >>> If you have installed the Haskell Platform or cabal-install, you can >>> install this beta release by doing: >>> >>> $ cabal update >>> $ cabal install --reinstall darcs-beta >>> >>> Alternatively, you can download the tarball from >>> http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.3.98.1.tar.gz , and build it by >>> hand >>> as explained in the README file. >>> >>> A list of important changes since 2.3.1 is as follows (please let me >>> know if there's something you miss!): >>> >>> * Use fast index-based diffing everywhere (Petr) >>> * Interactive patch splitting (Ganesh) >>> * An 'optimize --upgrade' option to convert to hashed format >>> in-place (Eric) >>> * Hunk matching (Kamil Dworakowski, tat.wright) >>> * Progress reporting is no longer deceptive (Roman Plášil) >>> * A 'remove --recursive' option to remove a directory tree from >>> revision control (Roman Plášil) >>> * A '--remote-darcs' flag for pushing to a host where darcs isn't >>> called darcs >>> * Many miscellaneous Windows improvements (Salvatore, Petr and >>> others) >>> * 'darcs send' now mentions the repository name in the email body >>> (Joachim) >>> * Handle files with boring names in the repository correctly >>> (Petr) >>> * Fix parsing of .authorspellings file (Tomáš Caitt) >>> * Various sane new command-line option names (Florent) >>> * Remove the '--checkpoint' option (Petr) >>> * Use external libraries for all UTF-8 handling (Eric, Reinier) >>> * Use the Haskell zlib package exclusively for compression (Petr) >>> >>> Kind Regards, >>> the darcs release manager, >>> Reinier Lamers >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > =============================================================================== > > Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic > communications disclaimer: > http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html > > =============================================================================== > > -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [email protected] IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
