News and discussions
--------------------
1. Sad news and steady changes.  David will be stepping down from
   leadership of the darcs project, with Eric taking over in these
   new roles.
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015506.html

2. Planet darcs.  New aggregator for blogs from the darcs community.
   Posts to the planet are mainly but not necessarily always related
   to darcs
   * http://planet.darcs.net

3. Standard darcs benchmarks.  Let's get serious about numbers.
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-October/015312.html

4. Haskell talk at Columbia Area Linux Users Group.
   Andrew Robbins talks about "How the Haskell programming language promotes
   bug-free software.by enforcing heavy restrictions on source code, and on
   several open source software projects that use Haskell for this purpose
   (darcs, parsec, xmonad, yi)."
   * http://calug.org/meetings.html
   * http://calug.org/meetings/2008/09/10.1/haskell.odp
   * http://calug.org/meetings/2008/09/10.1/haskell.ppt

5. How does conflict marking work?  Ian peers into the heart of
   conflict marking.
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015467.html

6. New camp trac and mailing list!
   * http://trac.haskell.org/camp/report/1
   * http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/camp

Reviewers
---------
Thanks to our patch reviewers this week!

- Trent Buck
- Jason Dagit
- Florent Becker

Issues resolved in the last week (1)
------------------------------------
issue1183 Thorkil Naur
 * newline after "Skipping depended-upon patch:"
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1183

Patches applied in the last week (99)
-------------------------------------
2008-10-23 Trent W. Buck
 - Remove unpleasant sequencing operators (;) from haddock targets.
 - Remove obsolete "deb" target.
 - Explain ghcflags_fancy.
 - Tweak C_OBJS declaration.
 - DARCS_FILES_DEPS is never bound, so don't evaluate it.
 - Generate SRC_DIRS programmatically.
 - Typo: inadequate quotation in configure.ac.

2008-10-28 Spencer Janssen
 - ByteStringUtils: simply re-export BS functions for GHC > 6.6

2008-10-26 Don Stewart
 - cleaner implementation of linesPS test
 - remove dead code
 - pack the small string, rather than unpack the bytestring

2008-10-29 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - remove quadratic blowups from mapPrimFL

2008-11-02 David Roundy
 - resolve another replace conflict.

2008-10-28 Jason Dagit
 - use fmap in unit.lhs
 - use fmap in Patch.Apply
 - use fmap in Match
 - use fmap in Lock
 - use fmap in External
 - use fmap in Diff
 - use fmap in Commands.Send
 - use fmap in Commands.Annotate
 - use fmap in ByteStringUtils

2008-11-02 David Roundy
 - add test of lazy get of lazy get.
 - simplify Setup.hs a bit.
 - revert hashing change that ignores all but last 20 bytes of each line.
 - resolve conflicts

2008-10-26 Eric Kow
 - Unused import police

2008-10-28 Jason Dagit
 - fixup ByteString compatibility for sake of ghc6.6
 - clean up module imports after ByteString changes

2008-10-27 Don Stewart
 - small merges
 - Remove all references  to FastPackedString the module. Gone
 - remove last references to the PackedString type

2008-10-26 Jason Dagit
 - clean up module imports after ByteString changes

2008-10-26 Don Stewart
 - remove dead code
 - remove all references to unsafeWithCStringLenPS
 - remove all references to mallocForeignPtr
 - remove all references to createPS
 - and in tests
 - remove all traces of packString
 - remove all references to breakOnPS
 - remove all references to spanEndPS
 - remove all references to indexPSW (only ever used as 'head')
 - remove all references to generatePS

2008-10-26 Jason Dagit
 - clean up imports in other modules after ByteString refactorings

2008-10-26 Don Stewart
 - Remove all references to dropWhilePS, clean up silly_lex while I'm here
 - pure haskell implementation of breakSpace, from Data.ByteString
 - remove fpstring.c:first_nonwhite, in favor of pure haskell implementation
 - remove all references to dropPS
 - remove all references to concatPS
 - remove all references to findLastPS
 - remove all references to breakPS
 - remove all references to findPS
 - remove all references to packWords
 - remove all references to takePS
 - Remove appendPS, dead code
 - remove all references to initPS
 - remove all references to tailPS
 - remove all references to nilPS

2008-10-26 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - remove writeFilePS usage from HTTP.hs

2008-10-26 Don Stewart
 - Remove all references to unpackPS
 - optimise use of unpack in Format.lhs
 - Optimize inefficiency when unpacking string for tok replace
 - Optimize hunk handling not to needlessly unpack bytestrings
 - Don't unpack the same bytestring twice in two lines
 - Optimize ignore_junk to not unpack the bytestring

2008-10-26 Jason Dagit
 - remove nullPS from Darcs.Patch.Test

2008-10-26 Don Stewart
 - Remove all references to nullPS
 - remove all references to headPS

2008-10-26 Jason Dagit
 - make BC.last depend on GADT_WITNESSES in Diff.lhs

2008-10-26 Don Stewart
 - remove all references to splitAtPS
 - More explict import lists
 - explicit import lists
 - remove all referenes to lengthPS
 - replace reimplementation of c2w with bytestring's c2w
 - remove references to indexPS
 - remove references to lastPS
 - remove references anyPS
 - remove references to hGetPS
 - remove references to hPutPS
 - Remove all references to hGetContentsPS
 - remove references to readFilePS
 - Remove references to writeFilePS
 - Remove splitPS in favor of its definition
 - Remove OldFastPackedString entirely

2008-10-25 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - just hash the last 20 characters in LCS

2008-11-02 David Roundy
 - compensate for bugfix in franchise in defineAs.
 - TAG unstable before bytestring patches.
 - changes to work with latest franchise.

2008-10-28 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - rewrite partitionFL and partitionRL to reduce the number of commutes they do

2008-11-01 David Roundy
 - don't link into the manual, since this is fragile.

2008-10-30 Eric P. Mangold
 - improve front page of http://darcs.net

2008-10-30 David Roundy
 - enable unbox-strict-fields in Setup.hs.

2008-10-30 Thorkil Naur
 - Fix issue1183

2008-10-30 David Roundy
 - make default be to --run-posthook and --run-prehook
 - rename smart_diff to unsafeDiff to reflect its unsafeness.
 - make a few changes to the sporadically-failing init.sh script.

2008-10-26 Don Stewart
 - replace insanely low level version of ifHeadThenTail with uncons
 - Remove dead code: reversePS

2008-10-26 Jason Dagit
 - add exception to haskell_policy.sh for Data.ByteString.readFile

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