[Haskell-cafe] darcs 2.4 beta 1 release

[Sittampalam, Ganesh]

Obviously source code documentation would be nice, but why is it "show-stopping"?

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> I really feel that bug 1720 [1] is a show-stopping bug for darcs,
> especially since it means that building Haddock for darcs with
> GHC-6.12.* isn't possible. 
> 
> [1] http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1720
> 
> I tried to make a fix, but didn't know enough of how darcs is
> documented to be able to do anything. 
> 
> 
> Reinier Lamers <tux_rocker at reinier.de> writes:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> The darcs team would like to announce the immediate availability of
>> darcs 2.4 beta 1. darcs 2.4 will contain many improvements and
>> bugfixes compared to darcs 2.3.1. Highlights are the fast index-based
>> diffing which is now used by all darcs commands, and the interactive
>> hunk-splitting in darcs record. This beta is your chance to
>> test-drive 
>> these improvements and make darcs even better.
>> 
>> If you have installed the Haskell Platform or cabal-install, you can
>> install this beta release by doing:
>> 
>>   $ cabal update
>>   $ cabal install --reinstall darcs-beta
>> 
>> Alternatively, you can download the tarball from
>> http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.3.98.1.tar.gz , and build it by
>> hand 
>> as explained in the README file.
>> 
>> A list of important changes since 2.3.1 is as follows (please let me
>> know if there's something you miss!):
>> 
>>    * Use fast index-based diffing everywhere (Petr)
>>    * Interactive patch splitting (Ganesh)
>>    * An 'optimize --upgrade' option to convert  to hashed format
>> in-place      (Eric) 
>>    * Hunk matching (Kamil Dworakowski, tat.wright)
>>    * Progress reporting is no longer deceptive (Roman Plášil)
>>    * A 'remove --recursive' option to remove a directory tree from
>> revision      control (Roman Plášil) 
>>    * A '--remote-darcs' flag for pushing to a host where darcs isn't
>> called      darcs 
>>    * Many miscellaneous Windows improvements (Salvatore, Petr and
>> others) 
>>    * 'darcs send' now mentions the repository name in the email body
>> (Joachim) 
>>    * Handle files with boring names in the repository correctly
>> (Petr) 
>>    * Fix parsing of .authorspellings file (Tomáš Caitt)
>>    * Various sane new command-line option names (Florent)
>>    * Remove the '--checkpoint' option (Petr)
>>    * Use external libraries for all UTF-8 handling (Eric, Reinier)
>>    * Use the Haskell zlib package exclusively for compression (Petr)
>> 
>> Kind Regards,
>> the darcs release manager,
>> Reinier Lamers
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