On 4/7/07, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was looking into darcs, actually. I thought you might think it was too > > far out there to be used, but I really like it's feature set. > > I have no idea about that, despite looking at it. What I liked > was it was designed by theoreticians based on theoretical model.
I've used darcs for a couple of my own small projects and I really like it. It looks to have all the features needed to do things like mailing list integration (though I've never used them myself). I chose it because I'm often without a net connection (e.g. laptop)... not having to have a central repo is a big help! However Darcs has a dark side... I've never encountered it, but there's a subtle bug regarding repos with lots of conflicts that shows up from time to time that can crash Darcs [1]. The current advice is "be careful" (i.e. avoid lots of conflicts) until the developers can come up with a solution. A possible alternative is Mercurial [2] which (although it doesn't have a "theory of patches" behind it) has many of the same features as Darcs and is faster in some instances. It's written in Python. I've never used it myself so I can't vouch for it though. - Chris [1] http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2007-March/010874.html [2] http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
