Hi all, Thought you might be interested in this recent reddit thread: http://programming.reddit.com/info/20cyu/comments/c20mqo
wherein tgbyhn says about darcs: > Its development process is broken: There is no planning, a constant > stream of pet features added, no focus on fixing the real issues. The > source code is an unreadable, undocumented mess (and not because it's > in Haskell). and in a later comment: > The conflict handling problem wasn't the only major issue that made me > dislike Darcs. At the time I stopped using it, the "partial checkout" > feature didn't work. Also, I never felt comfortable using it on Windows > because there were enough Windows-specific issues that made it seem like > nobody was even testing it on that platform. Furthermore, the > documentation said something like "The developers don't version binary > files so we don't care how poorly they are supported." Many operations > are slow, not just conflict resolution. Suggestions for good Unicode > support and better handling of binary files were sidelined for > questionable reasons. > > My complaint about the development process is mostly about prioritizing. > Everybody in the Darcs community seems to be aware of these big issues. > And, there are little bugs that remained in the tracker for months and > months without progress being made on them. Yet, new (IMO, marginal) > features were being added almost constantly. I'll likely be offline for a few days, but I thought you might be interested in these comments Your occasional darcs barometer, -- Eric Kow http://www.loria.fr/~kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 Merci de corriger mon français.
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