[Haskell-cafe] New book: Real-World Haskell!

[Jules Bean]

Doug Kirk wrote:
> No offense to the darcs creators, but
> 
> 1) Only current Haskellers use it; everyone else either uses
> Subversion or is migrating to it;


If that is true, then they have missed the point. DVC is a real win for 
most workflows.

The applicable alternatives to darcs are : bzr, git, mercurial, tla. 
They have different pros and cons which are discussed at length on 
various blogs.

svn just doesn't make the list; it's not a comparable project, because 
it's centralised. SVK is more plausible but since it is essentially a 
hack to implement decentralisation on top of centralisation, it has 
different design constraints than things designed from the bottom-up as 
decentralised.

Jules