On 04/11/10 13:39, Reinier Lamers wrote:
Hi all,
Op zondag 11 april 2010 16:39 schreef Eric Kow:
We also have a third project to consider.
It aims to make bring a Darcs GUI much closer to reality by helping us
to clean up the Darcs library (notably by separating the UI IO, from the
low-level repository IO).
I think a GUI is very important, almost just as important as performance. If
we were in a fairytale world where we could get two GSoC students, I'd rather
see one work on performance and another on a GUI than to see both work on
performance.
I currently use darcs happily without a GUI, but, if a GUI allowed me to
visualize the dependencies between patches, this could be quite
invaluable. (...Not having a sense of whether that particular proposal
makes a good project, but assuming it does.)
Eric makes a fair point about focusing (on performance). But also the
existence of side-projects is what will keep us going, should
performance someday lead towards dead-end or completion or boredom. I'm
not sure what role GSoC has in this.
As a darcs user, personally, I don't care about first impressions. It'd
be nice but not that important for darcs get/pull to be faster (This
would require new darcs to be deployed on the server, correct? -- in
addition to on the client). On the other hand, I can't tell from Eric's
description *any* benefit that I would get from "cache cleanup"; as far
as I can tell my cache works just fine. Eric, can you elaborate, or show
us a link to the proposal, or something?
-Isaac
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