On Saturday 25 March 2006 19:50, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > This is the same line of thinking that makes people use flash or wmv > "because it's the silly Linux users that has to adapt, Windows works fine" > and similar.
It's not. Darcs is not proprietary, so you can make it work if you want/need it. And it's up to those who use a specific platform to make it flourish, but holding us back to use something because of some specific platform having not enough developers/users/steam to follow would be entirely stupid. > > Thisis meant as a general remark, not especially regarding a distributed > > vcs. > > In this particular case I'm asking for a solution that can accomodate more > than just us. I'm positive that there are solutions as good as darcs that > does not require Haskell, but of course if there's a killer requirement > that makes darcs the only solution we'll work on make it available. Once again, I did not say anything in favor of any vcs. > Of course doing like people using Flash to write a website that could have > been built using plain HTML and animated GIF images, and using darcs only > because it was the first idea while there are good alternatives that works > for more people would be something that will a) piss me off quite a bit > because of the paradox said above b) make the whole project laughtable by > other Free Software projects finding the above analogy... The comparison to proprietary software is completely out of line. Carsten
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