News and discussions

1. Darcs received funding for two Google Summer of Code students, Owen Stephens and Petr Rockai:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-April/026103.html
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201104/gsoc-project-accepted
   • http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/mornfall/1

2. Andrew Pennebaker built and put online Windows installers for Darcs 2.5.2:

   • http://www.yellosoft.us/helpers
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-April/026113.html

3. We are looking for a new issue manager:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-May/026130.html

4. And here is the report of last month’s darcs sprint (Paris) in case you missed it:

   • http://blog.darcs.net/2011/04/darcs-hacking-sprint-6-report.html

Issues resolved in the last week (5)

issue1640 Radoslav Dorcik

• darcs apply –verbose without args mentions stdin.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1640

issue1661 Scott Lawrence

• make add –quiet quieter
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1661

issue1665 Chris Trompette

• wrong default suggestions for Windows
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1665

issue1804 Eric Kow

• friendlier message when adding missing files.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1804

issue2052 Owen Stephens

• Implicitly use unified diff, unless told not to.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2052

Patches applied in the last week (27)

2011-04-24 Radoslav Dorcik

• Resolve issue1640: darcs apply –verbose without args mentions stdin.
• Test for issue1640: darcs apply –verbose without args mentions stdin.

2011-04-22 Scott Lawrence

• Resolve issue1661: make add –quiet quieter

2011-04-07 Eric Kow

• Resolve issue1804: friendlier message when adding missing files.
• Friendlier exceptions when a file does not exist.

2011-04-18 David Caldwell

• Add a failing test for issue2066.

2011-04-27 Petr Rockai

• Fix remaining warnings in the new annotate code.

2011-04-23 Iago Abal

• Fix how ‘Prim’ patches generator creates patches

2011-04-06 Guillaume Hoffmann

• make optimize garbage collect pristine before any other optimization
• remove two exported unused functions from Darcs.Externals
• no longer use init’s advanced options for get

2011-04-17 Owen Stephens

• Remove unneeded parsePatches function, slightly refactor parseBundle to better describe intent.
• Tidy up, and add most Haddocks for Darcs/Patch/Bundle.hs
• Remove unused parameter from hashBundle function.
• Fixup failing diff tests, due to fix for issue 2052.
• Add regression test for issue 2052.
• resolve issue2052: Implicitly use unified diff, unless told not to.

2011-04-06 Chris Trompette

• resolve issue1665: wrong default suggestions for Windows

2011-04-15 Ganesh Sittampalam

• drop unneeded MonadPlus AnnotatedM instance

2011-04-01 Owen Stephens

• Ignore thisrepo source.

2011-04-09 Petr Rockai

• Forward-port a darcs show contents optimisation.
• Forward-port ApplyMonad.
• Fix a couple of shadowing warnings in Darcs.Annotate.
• Slash unused Population code.
• Forward-port of a new annotate implementation.

2011-04-06 Guillaume Hoffmann

• add test for get –verbose reporting getting packed repository
• make get –verbose report getting packed repository