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

[Doug Kirk]

OTOH, I work for companies, and they really value their assets,
especially software assets. So they *want* centralized stuff, so they
can ensure they have consistent backups (in the U.S.A. there is a lot
of regulation under Sarbanes-Oxley that requires this stuff). Right
now we're using ClearCase, which I abhor because it's so
heavyweight...but it is centralized control.

And as for the workflow, svn plugins are "built in" (as in free beer!) to:

-Xcode
-Eclipse
-TextMate
-Mac OS X (via DAV)
-HTML browser

and for

-Windows (if I really MUST use it)

via a download/install. So I can usually view, edit, and commit files
(or my favorite svn feature, a set of files atomically) from wherever
I happen to be working.


On 5/29/07, 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.
>
> Jules
>