DarcsWeeklyNews/2010-03-07

News and discussions

  1. Darcs 2.4 was released! Reinier wrote a comprehensive announcement at:

  2. Petr explained the difference of performance between darcs 2.3.1 and 2.4 on optimised pristine repositories:

  3. Max Battcher released musdex, a tool enabling darcs to version compressed files formats such as docx or odt:

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1731 Reinier Lamers
issue1749 Reinier Lamers
issue1755 Eric Kow

Patches applied in the last week (27)

2010-03-01 Eric Kow
  • Resolve issue1755: fix apparent hard line break in homepage.
  • Add a darcs get link to the homepage.
2010-02-27 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • update link to stable source
  • resolve conflict in index.html
2010-02-27 Reinier Lamers
  • Add 2.4 release announcement to web site
  • TAG 2.4
  • Bump version number for 2.4 release
2010-02-24 Eric Kow
  • Restore import of Origin needed for witness builds.
2010-02-14 Benedikt Schmidt
  • fix unused imports warnings
2010-02-18 Reinier Lamers
  • TAG 2.3.99.2
  • Bump version number for darcs 2.4 rc2
  • resolve issue1731: bump the hashed-storage dependency once more
  • TAG 2.3.99.1
  • Bump verson for 2.4rc1
  • TAG 2.3.98.3
  • Bump version number for darcs 2.4 beta 3
  • TAG 2.3.98.2
  • Bump version number for darcs 2.4 beta 2
  • TAG 2.3.98.1
  • Bump version for 2.4 beta 1
2010-02-12 Petr Rockai
  • Purge unused bits of checkpoint reading.
  • Add a missing Functor constraint on ReadableDirectory TreeMonad instance.
  • Replace Slurpy usage in Commands.Diff.
  • Remove unused force_replace_slurpy.
2010-02-08 Eric Kow
  • Accept issue1740: darcs is confused if you move a tracked dir.
2010-02-21 Reinier Lamers
  • Rename and adjust issue 1749 tests now that it succeeds
  • resolve issue1749: refuse to remove nonempty directories in makeRemovePatch