[Haskell-cafe] Why not Darcs?

Karel Gardas karel.gardas at centrum.cz
Fri Apr 22 09:24:23 CEST 2011


On 04/22/11 01:34 AM, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 21:29 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>> I'm sure this must be a VFAQ, but... There seems to be universal
>> agreement that Darcs is a nice idea, but is unsuitable for "real"
>> projects. Even GHC keeps talking about getting rid of Darcs. Can anybody
>> tell me what the "problems" with Darcs actually are?
>
> I believe the biggest problem was (i.e. when migration started) that
> there is no big-name-hosting supporting darcs. When code.haskell.org
> went down people were cut off from code.

http://www.patch-tag.com/ is not enough for you?

Cheers,
Karel



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