[darcs-users] darcs 0.9.8 out

[David Roundy]

Darcs 0.9.8 is now out.  It doesn't have many changes.  Just a couple of
fixes for bugs introduced in the recent IO rewrite.

The other change isn't a major change in itself, but is a herald of major
changes to come.  The next releast (0.9.9) will feature a new repository
format.  The current format has a _darcs/inventory file which lists all the
patches in the repository.  This file always gets read in its entirety,
which will lead to bad scaling as the number of patches in a repo gets
large.  So the plan is to break the inventory up into a number of smaller
files, so that in the common case you will only need to read in the patches
since the last tag.  This will also make it easier to support a partial
repository, meaning one that doesn't contain the entire history.  This will
be a nice feature, as it'll make the data transfered in a 'darcs get' of a
partial repository scale with the size of the tree, rather than with the
size of the repository.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org