On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 01:07:31PM -0800, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > If I were making the decisions on such things, I would drop Subversion > support and force people to use / learn Darcs. I'd provide a HOWTO, of > course.
I'm not using Darcs this lifetime, at least as long as it has a ghc dependency. If you use a slightly odd platform (in my case, NetBSD/macppc and NetBSD/amd64) where the ghc guys don't build binaries for, they require you to get ghc sources, a ghc binary for the same architecture but another OS, build intermediate C files specifically for that architecture (yes, their generated C code is architecture-dependent!), move the source tree to the target OS and compile it. This also means it can't be easily packaged with automated packaging systems, and I have to do this every time I need to update ghc to a new version for any architecture they don't care to provide binaries for. I don't like having to jump through hoops, especially not to build a frickin' compiler just to get some source control program on my system. (besides, I don't even have another OS on both computers, nor access to one that does) I'll just use svn (or any one of the many other source control systems out there, distributed or not), thanks very much. Regards, Peter -- http://sjamaan.ath.cx -- "The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music." -- Donald Knuth
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