- Distributed. Interactive. Smart. -
Darcs 2.4.1 release announcement
--The darcs team would like to announce the immediate availability of darcs -2.4.1. This release fixes a number of issues that were found in darcs 2.4. The -most important of these issues were that darcs did not work on Windows shares, -and that darcs would not work if it was built with a wrong version of the mmap -package. -
- --The easiest way to install darcs is using the Haskell Platform [1]. If you -have installed the Haskell Platform or cabal-install, you can install this -release by doing:
- -- $ cabal update - $ cabal install --reinstall darcs -- -
-Alternatively, you can download the tarball from -http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.4.1.tar.gz and build it by hand as -explained in the README file.
- -What's New
- -Important changes in Darcs 2.4.1
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- darcs works again on Windows network shares -
- missing documentation and test files have been added to the tarball -
- darcs will no longer give errors about a nonexistent file when compiled - with the wrong mmap -
- moving files between directories can no longer break the directory index -
- darcs handles the case that someone uses 'remove -r' on an - untracked directory -
- darcs ignores symlinks again, like all pre-2.4 releases -
Bugs Fixed in Darcs 2.4.1
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- 1645: ignore symlinks -
- 1750: uncover help text for 'darcs show pristine' -
- 1753: restrict mmap to version used by hashed-storage -
- 1754: fix issue458.sh on systems with xattrs -
- 1756: moving files between directories breaks index -
- 1757: add test files to distribution tarball -
- 1765: refuse to remove non-tracked directories recursively -
- 1767: send CRC erros to standard error -
Reporting bugs
--If you have an issue with darcs 2.4.1, you can report it via the web on -http://bugs.darcs.net/ . You can also report bugs by email to bugs@darcs.net. -
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-Kind Regards,
-the darcs release manager,
-Reinier Lamers
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-[1]: You can download the Haskell platform from - http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ -
- - rmfile ./doc/announce.html