gale:
> Eric Kow wrote:
> >>  * stable libdarcs
> 
> Reinier Lamers wrote:
> > I consider this one particularly important. It's 2008 and for most people,
> > even many software developers, the command line is a thing of the past. I
> > think many potential users expect their VCS to integrate tightly with their
> > IDE and/or graphical operating system environment and that gets so much 
> > easier
> > when we have a libdarcs. Darcs's architecture is extremely user-friendly, 
> > but
> > I think many people won't see that because of its command line only 
> > interface.
> 
> I agree with this. But libdarcs is a longer-term solution.
> I think the short-term solution of TortoiseDarcs
> should be even a higher priority. It can always be
> retrofitted to use libdarcs later on.
> 
> Perhaps I'm biased, though. The life or death of darcs at my
> company depends on how fast TortoiseDarcs, or some other
> Windows integration - not tied to either the command line or
> an IDE - materializes.
> 
> Another high priority should be darcs distributed as
> a standard installation wizard EXE for Windows.
> Ditto for the Mac, but that's currently a smaller market.
> 

Yes, the distros can take great care with unix packages, but we may need
to find dedicated maintainers for producing windows .exe and installable
mac images, as ghc does.

-- Don
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