News and discussions

1. Reinier Lamers announced the release schedule of darcs 2.4 (freeze: December 31st, release: January 30th):

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-December/022597.html

2. Eric Kow asked the team to contribute benchmarks showing the performance improvements of the next stable version:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-December/022599.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-December/022631.html

3. Ganesh Sittampalam summed up his work in progress regarding versions 2.4 and 2.5:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-December/022603.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1362 Joachim Breitner

• Mention repo name in mail send body
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1362

issue1392 caitt@users.sourceforge.net ~ - use parsec to parse .authorspelling - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1392

Patches applied in the last week (32)

2009-12-26 Joachim Breitner

• Also import (<>)
• Resolve issue1362: Mention repo name in mail send body

2009-12-24 Ganesh Sittampalam

• move witnesses code into its own namespace
• simplify code
• Change get_patches_beyond_tag so the return type matches the actual data
• update comment
• drop #ifdef
• drop a bunch of old C helper code

2009-12-18 Florent Becker

• fix conflict between commutex -> commute rename and utf8-metadata

2009-11-22 Reinier Lamers

• Kill unused import warning in Darcs.Utils
• Make darcs depend on a haskeline that doesn’t choke on malformed UTF-8
• Fix another conflict between UTF-8 and main branch
• Autodetect UTF-8 encoded metadata
• Resolve conflicts with import warnings and with the addition of a newline to the author file
• Add tests for function of UTF-8 marker line and for NFC normalization
• Stop handling all command line arguments as Unicode text
• Add C wrappers for ICU functions to work around changing symbol names
• Resolve conflict about the handling of the author pref file
• Resolve conflict with darcs-hs merge
• Normalize Unicode of the patch metadata for comparison.
• Test that patches with non-latin1 metadata can be safely moved between repos
• Move locale conversion out of IO monad
• Test that darcs tag stores metadata in UTF-8
• Make _darcs/prefs/author be locale-encoded
• Make amend-record store metadata as UTF-8
• Add tests for rollback’s storing metadata as UTF-8
• Make UTF-8 test a bit more compact
• Add tests to check that amend-record stores metadata in UTF-8
• Resolve conflicts between UTF-8 and main branch
• Add test for UTF-8 metadata
• Make record store patch metadata in UTF-8

2009-12-20 caitt@users.sourceforge.net ~ - resolve issue1392: use parsec to parse .authorspelling