[good points about flexible/simple/spontaneous snipped] > marketing. Sometimes I see the word "Intelligent" to describe software, > but I prefer the more casual "Smart".
I'm just afraid of that word backfiring on us when somebody runs into the dreaded nested conflicts or doppelganger problems, or when darcs does something... spontaneous. Oh well, there probably isn't an ideal word, and smart seems as good as any. At least we're not saying "Perfect" > I didn't see the old "Hi..." phrasing as pretentious, I found it more > personal and friendly. Right. It was very hard arguing this with my friends. I also agree that nothing we say is going to be airtight. In any case, I am glad that we're taking out the references to quantum mechanics. > I was surprised about some of the pro-subversion things I found on the > wiki over the weekend on the darcs-vs-subversion page. (I've changed > them now.) It wasn't that they were malicious or false, it was just that > the same thing could be expressed as a positive for darcs instead of a > positive for subversion. Incidentally, I thought I should point out that despite the screenshots, darcs doesn't really have a working gui. Our gui is good enough to make screenshots, but not enough that I would recommend it to users. There are some third party guis in the works though, but they don't seem too ready. Then again, I suppose you could count TortoiseDarcs... > What I felt was missing from the front page was really getting a sense > of darcs at a glance. I thought "Distributed. Interactive. Smart." > helped with that. Yep. I'd call the new page an improvement! Some minor remarks (I can submit these as a patch): - you've got a 'one one' in there - it probably wouldn't hurt to put a (GPL, Haskell) near the download links - though the wiki should be emphasised, it's probably still good to put a link to the manual (?) -- Eric Kow http://www.loria.fr/~kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 Merci de corriger mon français.
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