[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #87

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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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)
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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)
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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