[Haskell-cafe] Re: fptools in darcs now available

[Andre Pang]

On 02/05/2005, at 4:28 AM, Sven Panne wrote:

> So my question in a nutshell: Why shall we move away from the  
> mainstream
> when the rest of the world (or most of) is quite happy with CVS or is
> moving to subversion? I'm not completely against it, but we should  
> have
> very, very good reasons to do so.

Darcs will have one major advantage over Subversion for a particular  
project in fptools: GHC.  There are plenty of folks who I think would  
like to branch GHC for their own experimental use (I already know of  
one such person in my own research group), which where Darcs's  
distributed model really helps.  While Subversion is much, much  
better than CVS -- I use it everyday at work -- I think users being  
able to make their own branches of GHC is a compelling case for using  
Darcs.


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