darcs weekly news #4

News and discussions

1. First pre-release of darcs 2.0.3. This version of darcs has some very nice bug fixes on offer. A few more user-friendliness tweaks are planned for the actual release.
   • http://www.darcs.net/darcs-2.0.3pre1.tar.gz
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013839.html
2. Third venue confirmed for darcs hacking sprint, 25-26 October. Brighton, Portland and now Paris are all CONFIRMED. Come hack with us!
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013710.html
3. code.haskell.org upgrades to darcs 2! /usr/bin/darcs is now darcs 2.0.2 on this server. No action is needed on the user's part.
   • http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/16419
4. Retiring GHC 6.4. Nobody seems to be using GHC 6.4 to compile darcs after all, so we shall be dropping support for it.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013731.html

Reviewers

Thanks to our patch reviewers for this week for giving David a hand!

• Jason Dagit
• Nathan Gray
• Trent W. Buck

Issues resolved in the last week (6)

issue691 Dmitry Kurochkin

• distinguish between NoArg and ReqArg in defaults parser.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue691

issue709 David Roundy

• avoid adding changes to pending in rmpend when possible.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue709

issue885 David Roundy

• fix patchSetToRepository to work with hashed.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue885

issue1012 David Roundy

• it seems to be fixed by the fix for issue709.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1012

issue1054 Dmitry Kurochkin

• --no-cache option to ignore patch caches.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1054

issue1057 David Roundy

• this was fixed in the previous patch.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1057

Patches applied in the last week (86)