On Friday 24 March 2006 21:44, Stuart Herbert wrote: > The offered software will be trac, svn, and moinmoin. I'm going to > look at darcs, and with the help of the haskell team and infra > determine if we can support it or not. No-one has expressed a > preference for a different distributed VCS instead of darcs. I haven't being following discussion, to be honest, as I don't really have time to read mailing lists lately, but I'm happy I've spotted this mail at least...
Although I don't know darcs at all in terms of use and feature, I would really suggest to _not_ use it. For a simple reason, actually: cvs has almost no cost added, as it's present on every major distribution, system and operating system, being well known and written in plain C with just a few dependencies; svn has a bit more costs, as it requires apr, berkdb and neon, but it's also available on a wide range of different system because it's also in C mainly. Darcs, instead, is written in Haskell, which means you need architectures that supports Haskell, and in which it's stable enough to work... considering we have Gentoo/Alt, it's not that good to "cut" us off (yes I know I should be able to make Gentoo/FreeBSD and maybe other arches to have ghc, but that's not easy and not on my top priority list, while support for overlays can be useful.. for a while we needed java overlay to get kaffe, for example). Also, the way ghc is bootstrapped (need a -bin and then build from sources) makes it not exactly painless to handle... and it's an extra language needed anyway. I would be more in favour of GNU arch derived like bzr (bazaar-ng) or mercurial, that are written in Python. While we should know that saying "being interpreted means it runs anyway" doesn't fly, a working python is already a strict requirement (portage, anyone?) and it's way less pain that ghc, IMHO. I'm also sure bzr works fine on FreeBSD, DragonFly and OSX as I've tried it myself.. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
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