[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #83

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. The next Hacking Sprint will take place in Paris soon. Please add
   yourself to the wiki page if you consider attending:

   * http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2011-04
   * http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-February/089640.html

2. Radoslav Dorcik compiled an e-book from Darcs' Wikipedia article and its
   related pages, and made it available under the epub format

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-February/026025.html

3. We discussed our review policy and settled on a more relaxed approach to
   it:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-devel/2011-February/012413.html


Issues resolved in the last week (2)
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issue1737 bsrkaditya
 * darcs mv does not warn when moving old to new if > 2 args
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1737

issue2041 Alexey Levan
 * prevent Darcs from following the directory symlinks
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2041


Patches applied in the last week (38)
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2011-02-24 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - bump QuickCheck and associated deps to fix build problem

2011-02-12 Iago Abal
 - Add Darcs.Test.Util.TestResult module to darcs.cabal
 - Replace use of Maybe Doc by TestResult in unit testing code
 - Add TestResult data type and related utilities
 - Fix arbitraryTree frequencies to significantly reduce empty trees
 - Warn about the use of localIdentity for testing
 - Fix ArbitraryStateIn s (Tree p) instance to avoid generation of a
(non-senseful) initial sequence of empty trees
 - Fix bug in arbitraryTree causing it to break depth(result) <=
maxDepth postcondition
 - Add defaultToks to the export list of Darcs.Commands.Replace
 - Clarify a commentary on commuteFiledir
 - Remove trailing space

2011-02-22 bsrkaditya
 - resolve issue1737: darcs mv does not warn when moving old to new if > 2 args

2011-01-14 Florent Becker
 - Correct comments in Patch.Depends

2010-12-18 Eric Kow
 - Haddock some of Darcs.Patch.Depends.

2011-02-22 Guillaume Hoffmann
 - haddock for doesDirectoryReallyExist

2011-02-09 Alexey Levan
 - Resolve issue2041: prevent Darcs from following the directory symlinks
 - Test for issue2041

2011-02-07 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - Darcs.Witnesses.Sealed: add trailing newline to silence compiler warning
 - Darcs.URL: missing newline at end of file
 - Darcs.Patch.Bracketed: missing newline at end of file
 - Darcs.Patch.Bracketed.Instances: missing newline at end of file
 - Darcs.Patch.Dummy: missing newline at end of file
 - Darcs.Witnesses.Ordered: missing newline at end of file
 - Darcs.Witnesses.Eq: missing newline at end of file
 - Darcs.Repository.LowLevel: missing newline at end of file
 - Darcs.Patch.Prim.V1: missing newline at EOF

2011-02-12 Alexey Levan
 - Add Darcs.Commands.Util to darcs.cabal
 - Maybefy lists in patch selection code
 - Move commonly used functions from (Darcs.Command.)WhatsNew to Util

2011-02-18 Iago Abal
 - (Dirty) Fix of hpc.README for automatic generation of coverage report
 - Add -fhpc to darcs-test

2010-11-30 Eric Kow
 - Fix backslash escaping in my APPDATA patch.
 - Fix inconsistency in documentation on Windows paths.

2010-11-21 Petr Rockai
 - Fix darcs-test on Win32 + GHC 6.12+.

2011-02-14 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - TAG 2.7.3
 - bump version to 2.7.3
 - record the GHC requirements in the cabal file
 - Use NoMonoLocalBinds extension to keep GHC 7 happy