DarcsWeeklyNews/2009-06-14

News and discussions

  1. Eric Kow announced that darcs 2.3 and later will not be compilable with

~ GHC 6.6:

  1. Matthias Kilian put online a mirror of GHC’s repository in hashed format,

~ and compared performance of darcs get on the different repositories:

* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020125.html ~ - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020141.html

  1. Petr Rockai’s Summer of Code Progress:

~ ``I have worked on documenting the index format (and code), ~ some minor cleanup and interoperability improvements.’’

-   [http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc\_progress\_3.html](http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_progress_3.html)
-   [http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020123.html](http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020123.html)

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1412 Reinier Lamers

Patches applied in the last week (12)

2009-06-12 Trent W. Buck
  • Remove GHC 6.6 compatibility (Data.Function.on).
  • Update build dependency documentation.
2009-06-11 Petr Rockai
  • Bump version to 2.2.97.1.
  • Use the mmap package instead of bytestring-mmap.
2009-06-11 Reinier Lamers
  • Require test-framework etc. for building unit tests
  • Port unit tests from homegrown testrunner to test-framework
  • Remove testrunner subtree from darcs source tree
  • Clean up ugly late-night code in Darcs.Patch.Check
2009-06-10 Eric Kow
  • Remove api-doc targets from Makefile.
  • Do not depend on “make darcs” for “make website”.
  • Fix homepage links to wiki.
2009-06-09 Reinier Lamers
  • resolve issue1412: also adjust maxline in PatchCheck upon insert_line