[Haskell-cafe] Why not Darcs?

[Paul R]

Maciej> I believe the biggest problem was (i.e. when migration started)
Maciej> that there is no big-name-hosting supporting darcs. When
Maciej> code.haskell.org went down people were cut off from code.

Please forgive me if the answer is obvious : is Darcs storage "backend
agnostic", or must it really store things in local filesystem ? AFAIK,
BitBucket team patched (internally) mercurial to allow storage to amz
s3.

I don't want to advertise for a particular key-value storage provider,
but most of them are quiet reliable and cheap. Designing a hub that
would store everything in such a key-value persistent store should not
be too hard to get right, reliable and distributed. Hosting it would be
cheap also.

-- 
  Paul