GitLab

It's now easier to add new repos anywhere in the source tree

We no longer create those directories

- The type families patch includes a change to darcs-all that breaks it for
  ssh repos at least for Perl 5.8.8 (on MacOS).
- My Perl-fu is not sufficient to try to fix the modification, which was
  supposed to improve darcs-all on windows, so I just revert to the old
  code.

This patch introduces type checking for type families of which associated
type synonyms are a special case. E.g.

        type family Sum n m

        type instance Sum Zero n = n
        type instance Sum (Succ n) m = Succ (Sum n m)

where

        data Zero       -- empty type
        data Succ n     -- empty type

In addition we support equational constraints of the form:

        ty1 ~ ty2

(where ty1 and ty2 are arbitrary tau types) in any context where
type class constraints are already allowed, e.g.

        data Equals a b where
                Equals :: a ~ b => Equals a b

The above two syntactical extensions are disabled by default. Enable
with the -XTypeFamilies flag.

For further documentation about the patch, see:

        * the master plan
          http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TypeFunctions

        * the user-level documentation
          http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Indexed_types

The patch is mostly backwards compatible, except for:

        * Some error messages have been changed slightly.

        * Type checking of GADTs now requires a bit more type declarations:
          not only should the type of a GADT case scrutinee be given, but also
          that of any identifiers used in the branches and the return type.

Please report any unexpected behavior and incomprehensible error message 
for existing code.

Contributors (code and/or ideas):
        Tom Schrijvers
        Manuel Chakravarty
        Simon Peyton-Jones
        Martin Sulzmann 
with special thanks to Roman Leshchinskiy

Fixes working in branches where that isn't true.

This fixes a problem where patches altering the darcs-all script break
on Windows as the file is open. The script is now also slightly nicer,
on balance.

If you got darcs by SSH without specifying a username then the script
would break.

This is a slight improvement over the patch sent by jamey@minilop.net,
we now do it properly if the source repo was a GHC tree on the local
filesystem too.

Merge post 6.6.

The following packages are now "core" packages:

  base, Cabal, haskell98, readline, regex-base, regex-compat
  regex-posix, stm, template-haskell, unix, Win32

Core packages are those packages required to bootstrap GHC, or are
closely tied to GHC (stm, template-haskell).  These are the packages
that will be provided in a source distribution from now on.

All other packages are classified as "extra" packages.  As far as
binary distributions and nightly builds go, nothing will change -
we'll still build and include all these packages in the distributions.

NOTE: 'sh darcs-all get' will now get the core packages only.  To get
the extra packages too, use 'sh darcs-all --extra get'.

darcs-all may now be run with any POSIX-compatible /bin/sh.