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

[Hakim Cassimally]

On 29/05/07, Jules Bean <jules at jellybean.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

How do the differing design constraints make svk not comparable?
As far as I understood it, it's a decentralised version control system
that happens to layer over a very popular existing system, and which
therefore gets some of its goodies like working over http.

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