On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:38:25 +0000 >>>>>> "Iago" == Iago Abal <iago.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
Iago> I think the "lack of" darcs hosting is not the cause of people
Iago> moving to git/mercurial.
I do not agree...
Iago> First of all an open-source Haskell
Iago> project has free hosting (includedf wiki and bug tracker) on
Iago> community.haskell.org,
That's only for Haskell projects...
Iago> and any other non-Haskell project has free
Iago> repository(+gitit) hosting in patch-tag.com. Even more, you can
Iago> get free bug-tracker hosting in other Internet sites... I don't
Iago> see why you must have all in the same site.
Github, Bitbucket and LP (to name the major players) have support for
complete hosting, iow, repo hosting + tracker + some other goodies...
Similar situation with other hosts like Googlecode, SF etc. which
even have support for many (D)VCS-es.
When I e.g. asked for Darcs import support at LP, it was tagged as
'low priority'.
Iago> The 100% of people that I know they moved from Darcs to
Iago> Git/Mercurial was due to performance issues, they argued things
Iago> like "Darcs is unusable when you have more than N thousand of
Iago> patches, even tagging frequently". For instance, a darcs get
Iago> --lazy of any "big" repository took "a lot of time" in the past
Iago> (now fixed), and when you see git does the same very fast... IMHO
Iago> this is the main reason Darcs is not more widely used, and not
Iago> the lack of hosting. The hosting is a consequence of many people
Iago> using your VCS and not the direct reason because people use your
Iago> VCS. Lot of people will love Darcs cherry-picking and other
Iago> features, but nobody likes to have an unusable repo.
For many projects darcs performance is adequate, but where to host
open-source project when there is no hosting support.
Even patch-tag hosting cannot compare with other's offerings.
Of course, darcs had momentum, but at that time it had serious
performance problems and then hosting support was practically nil.
Bzr has/had reputation being the slowest from the grand trio of {bzr,
git, hg}, but LP makes the difference offering ability to host the
project for free.
Sincerely,
Gour
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