On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Tuomo Valkonen <tuo...@iki.fi> wrote:
> Some of the latest changes to Ion, including the scripts repository,
> can be downloaded from
>
> http://iki.fi/tuomov/ion/patches.html
>
> pending my VCS switch eternity project. (All version control systems
> suck. Only darcs developers have devoted more than two brain cells
> to the UI. But GHC sucks donkey balls and thus there's no cygwin
> version of darcs, and the native Windows version of darcs sucks.
> That's the biggest hurdle of my windows switch: lack of decent
> vcs/darcs. Otherwise I'm very happy to have taken broken away
> from the feces-throwing competition known as linux.)
>
> --
> In 1995, Linux was almost a bicycle; an alternative way of live to the
> Windows petrol beasts that had to be taken to the dealer for service.
> By 2008, Linux has bloated into a gas-guzzler, and the cycle paths
> have been replaced with polluted motorways.
Hy there Tuomo!
I admire both your window manager (which I use for more that 3 or
4 years), and your rage against the current state of affairs in the IT
industry. (I'm myself disgusted by 99% of the IT industry.)
But I wonder: you like darcs (or at least compared with others),
and you have searched for other distributed VCS's but all of them
"suck", what is wrong about (for example) Hg or Git? I mean what are
your thoughts about this topic.
(Disclaimer: I've switched all my repositories from CVS to SVN and
then to Git... and until now, I'm happy... Indeed the Windows support
is a little bit brittle, but under Cygwin it should work...)
Thank you for your insight,
Ciprian Craciun.
P.S.: I've even found a nice usage for Ion: a "safe" window
manager for my parents, which I'm sure they are not able to break
(pressing random keys, clicking random icons, and all the glorified
Gnome/KDE stuff)... (With OpenOffice or Firefox it is not the same...
It took a little bit of training not to break them...)
