> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 06:56:23PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote: > > > > * Our long-term goal should be to get the *entire* Haskell > > development community to agree on a version-control system---one > > that is not darcs. We should expect this process to take several > > years, and we should expect it to cost money. Would Microsoft or > > Galois or York or other large players be willing to donate part of > > an expert's time to migrate to the new version-control system? > > It is, of course, up to people with money what they spend it on, but > personally I would much prefer to see money spent on making darcs > better, for reasons I won't repeat again.
I missed them and wouldn't mind receiving a private note. For the last year I have been hoping to make 'a new darcs-like thing, with a real theory founding it' an important part (one of three) of a grant proposal in distributed computing. So you can see I am in favor of spending money to create a better darcs (which is not quite the same thing as making darcs better; I want to start with a new theory). But I am having second thoughts because I think by the time a proposal reaches a review committee, git may be so firmly entrenched (worse is better) that the work would be considered not worth funding. I realize that I am now firmly off topic, but if people here have opinions, I would be grateful to receive them (perhaps off-list). Norman _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
