[Haskell-cafe] Darcs users [was: New book: Real-World Haskell!]

[Doug Kirk]

I didn't say there weren't others, simply that I didn't know of any
others (I don't just go looking for things online all the
time...having a real job really gets in the way of these things)! So I
wasn't really trying to disparage darcs. But here's another statistic:

http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=darcs+inurl:_darcs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Results 1 - 50 of about 54,100 for darcs inurl:_darcs. (0.38 seconds)

http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=svn+inurl:svn&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Results 1 - 50 of about 995,000 for svn inurl:svn. (0.14 seconds)

That's 54,000 pages vs. 995,000 pages. That really was more my point.
(BTW, cvs is still [Results 1 - 50 of about 2,920,000 for cvs
inurl:cvs. (0.17 seconds)])

I *want* people (and companies) to move to Haskell; therefore, I want
to lower the entry "price". The goal is to introduce a new language,
not a new SCM tool. You certainly wouldn't want to leave the
impression that one MUST use darcs in order to use Haskell!



On 5/26/07, Donald Bruce Stewart <dons at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> On 26/05/07, Matthew Sackman <matthew at wellquite.org> wrote:
> >(On the other hand, I don't know of anyone outside immediate
> >"haskellers" using Darcs.)
>
> Good idea to get some data on this, instead of speculating. Let's do that.
> A quick google reveals the Haskell crew is far from alone as users.
>
>     http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=_darcs
>
> Here's the first 20 hits google finds:
>
>     repo.nitroproject.org/_darcs/
>     darcs.pugscode.org/_darcs/
>     common-lisp.net/project/cffi/darcs/cffi/_darcs/
>     www.cymraeg.ru/repos/geiriadur/_darcs/current/
>     www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/polymer/_darcs/          <-- Haskell
>     www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/goa/_darcs/              <-- Haskell
>     zargon.hobbesnet.org/~squires/repos/torbutton/_darcs/
>     facets.rubyforge.org/src/_darcs/
>     www.n-heptane.com/nhlab/repos/cabalDebianTemplate/_darcs/
>     www.khjk.org/~sm/code/advopost/_darcs/
>     repetae.net/john/repos/GetOptions/_darcs/              <-- Haskell
>     james.tooraweenah.com/darcs/netrek-server/_darcs/
>     users.tkk.fi/~ptotterm/darcs/macports/_darcs/
>     mumble.net/~campbell/darcs/slime48/_darcs/
>     galinha.ucpel.tche.br/chicken/_darcs/
>     mp3fs.sourceforge.net/mp3fs/_darcs/
>     www.scannedinavian.com/~eric/hpaste/_darcs/            <-- Haskell
>     www.lshift.net/~tonyg/json-scheme/_darcs/
>     darcs.fh-wedel.de/hxt/_darcs/                          <-- Haskell
>
> Of which only 5/20 are Haskell repos.
>
> -- Don
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