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Guillaume Hoffmann | 4 Feb 13:55
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darcs weekly news #91

News and discussions
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1. Ganesh uploaded a third beta of Darcs 2.8:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-January/026364.html

2. The next Darcs Sprint has a tentative date and place of 31 march,
   Southampton. Please annotate yourself on the wiki to participate:

   * http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2012-03

Issues resolved in the last week (1)
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issue1470 Johannes Weiss
 * Allow to amend-record patch by removing some hunks
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1470

Patches applied in the last week (11)
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2012-01-15 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - add amend-unrecord alias
 - TAG 2.7.98.3
 - change version to 2.7.98.3 (2.8 beta 3)
 - clean out dist folder from sdist tarball
 - use cabal unpack instead of tar -x when testing
 - TAG 2.7.98.2
 - Change version to 2.7.98.2 (2.8 beta 2)
 - fill out options for amend-record --unrecord and add test
 - rename amend-record's --rollback option to --unrecord
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Mihai Christodorescu | 20 Jan 22:13
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Re: ssh issues (and Windows too)


> Comments? Laterally-thought solutions [like I wonder if changing PuTTY would be feasible, or getting
people to use something else]?

Have you considered using libssh?
http://www.libssh.org/
I have no experience with it directly, I only just heard of it, but it might
make things easier instead of dealing with external processes.

Regards,

Mihai

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Ganesh Sittampalam | 19 Jan 08:35
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2.8 beta 3

Hi,

I've uploaded darcs 2.8 beta 3 to hackage. You can install it with
'cabal install darcs-beta'.

The only change since beta 2 is to fix a problem with the package
generation. If you managed to install beta 2 despite that problem, then
there's nothing new in beta 3.

The draft changelog at http://wiki.darcs.net/changes%20since%202.5 is
now mostly complete.

Cheers,

Ganesh
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Guillaume Hoffmann | 16 Jan 12:47
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darcs weekly news #90

News and discussions
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1. Ganesh Sittampalam uploaded the second beta of darcs 2.8:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-January/026356.html

2. Zooko O'Whielacronx called for a new maintainer for darcsver:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-January/026350.html

3. Eric Kow summed up the recent issues of Darcs with regards to SSH:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-January/026340.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)
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issue845 Eric Kow
 * pass ssh stderr through.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue845

issue2090 Eric Kow
 * correctly detect existing transfer-mode connection.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2090

Patches applied in the last week (44)
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2012-01-15 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - resolve conflicts in darcs.cabal with test_stub.hs reinstatement
 - complete rollback of test_stub.hs removal for main branch
 - resolve conflicts in darcs.cabal with test_stub.hs removal
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Ganesh Sittampalam | 15 Jan 23:54
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2.8 release rebooted

Hi,

The 2.8 release has suffered a long hiatus due to various people
becoming busy at the same time.

I'm now trying to get it back on track, and have uploaded 2.8-beta2 to
to hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs-beta-2.7.98.2

The repo is at http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.8

In view of the significant delay, I've incorporated most of the changes
that have been submitted in the last months, so this beta has some
changes in functionality from 2.8-beta1.

Thanks to some aggressive bug triaging by Mark Stosberg, we've
identified what seem to us to be the crucial issues and dealt with them.
The goal is not to have any regressions from the 2.5 series, but some
bugs that were regressions in the 2.5 series versus 2.4 may remain.

Thanks to Mark and Simon Michael, we also have a draft changelog:
http://wiki.darcs.net/changes%20since%202.5 - this isn't complete yet
but I'll work on filling that in as soon as I can.

I'm not going to commit to a specific timeline but my general plan is to
get new betas out frequently as needed, and then move to the release
candidate and release phases once any urgent problems are resolved.

Ganesh
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Zooko O'Whielacronx | 7 Jan 15:21

darcsver needs a new maintainer

Folks:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/darcsver

Darcsver is a handy tool which I recommend to anyone who keeps their
Python project under darcs. It needs a new maintainer! Email me if you
want it.

Regards,

Zooko
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Eric Kow | 4 Jan 16:30
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code.haskell.org now running darcs 2.5.2; upgrade your repos!

Hi all,

One of our bigger groups of users is Haskellers, so I think this message might be appropriate.  The server
code.haskell.org is now running darcs 2.5.2 (I just randomly noticed).

If you have a repository on there, now's your chance to upgrade it to the hashed format. This format has been
around since Darcs 2 was introduced in 2008, and interoperates with the darcs 1 "old-fashioned" format
(in other words, you can push/pull patches between hashed and old-fashioned repos)

All you need to do is

ssh code.haskell.org
cd /srv/code/yourproject
darcs gzcrcs --check
darcs optimize --upgrade

Doing so will make it faster for your users to get darcs repositories.

Thanks!

Eric

PS: we should probably put up an announcement on haskell-cafe and the darcs blog after waiting a bit to make
sure we've mentioned all the right details :-)

PPS: the gzcrcs --check is properly speaking part of the upgrade, but code.haskell.org has been running
darcs 2.0.2 for so long, and I just heard some complaints about corrupt CRC warnings.

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Eric Kow <http://erickow.com>
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Jens Petersen | 4 Jan 07:14

haskell-platform-2011.4

Hi,

Is there going to be a new release of darcs for haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0
or does it build ok after patching darcs.cabal for regex-compat-0.95.1?

Jens
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Eric Kow | 1 Jan 18:38
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ssh issues (and Windows too)

Hi all,

Happy New Year!

Just dumping some notes from some recent work on the Darcs SSH code.  The patches here are either on
http://darcs.net or on the tracker.

Bug-fixes: these may be bugs that only affect people using bleeding edge darcs or betas

1. ssh performance regression (patch686) - darcs 2 introduced a darcs transfer-mode command which lets us
share connections to ssh servers.  Unfortunately, sometime last year, we accidentally introduced an
error which made darcs not realise when it could use the darcs transfer-mode connection it had previously
opened.  The effect is that ssh would slow down because for each file darcs wanted to fetch, it would call
darcs transfer-mode anew.

2. scp error (patch689) - if darcs transfer-mode failed, darcs falls back to scp.  Lately, it'd started
saying "scp example.com example.com:foo bar instead of "scp example.com:foo bar"

UI improvements and documentation :

3. the one minute Windows/SSH guide - for now http://wiki.darcs.net/Windows - problems with SSH on
Windows seem to be quite frequent, so maybe a prominent guide would help?

4. default to plink/pscp/psftp on Windows (patch687) - this should bring darcs a tiny bit closer to just
working on Windows.  Some caveats, though, see #3

5. relay ssh stderr (patch688) - this should fix the longstanding issue845 where darcs appears to hang on
Windows when ssh'ing because actually ssh wants to ask you things and darcs isn't showing you.  But there's
a pretty massive BUT (see #7)
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Guillaume Hoffmann | 30 Dec 14:37
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darcs weekly news #89

Or more like Darcs Yearly News ? :-)

News and discussions
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1. Owen Stephens summarized his work on the darcs-bridge summer of code
   and did some followup work on it:

   * http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201109/gsoc-darcs-bridge-%E2%80%93-results
   * http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201111/darcs-bridge-bug-tracker-and-updates

2. Eric Kow introduced an 'announce' topic filter on the mailing list
   to provide a low-traffic announcement subset of the list:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-November/026321.html

3. Mark Stosberg announced a donation of $500 on behalf of Summersault.
   Remember you too can donate by going on the donations page of darcs.net:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-December/026335.html
   * http://www.darcs.net/donations.html

4. Interested by participating in the next Darcs sprint in March?
   Add yourself to the wiki page:

   * http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2012-03

Issues resolved in the last week (1)
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issue1705 Eric Kow
 * show contents --index fixed by Owen.
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Mark Stosberg | 28 Dec 15:39
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A holiday gift for darcs: $500


Darcs has been an excellent tool for us at Summersault over the years,
and we wish to say "thank you" and encourage future development.

This year we have just donated $500 to the project, as we have done in
the past.

I hope that this year our funds can help solve the bug known as
"unpull hangs forever", which directly affects us:
http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2097

as well as getting the 2.8 release cycle completed.

Thanks again for darcs!

   Mark

http://www.summersault.com/
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