> The fact that this problem occurs rather often suggests that there are
> serious issues with darcs as it stands.
I think we are all aware of that. In its current state, Darcs has
been a great research project, and has borne some very interesting
results:
- the ``repos as an unordered set of patches'' mostly works and is
easy on the brain;
- it is possible to design a VC system with a user interface made
for humans.
On the other hand, Darcs has four very serious and one moderately
serious issue:
- Darcs is not complete (some patches fail to commute);
- Darcs is not correct (will sometimes write an incorrect repo);
- Darcs is subject to combinatorial explosion;
- Darcs is coded inefficiently in some areas.
It is not entirely clear to me what the right thing to do is -- work
on improving Darcs, or throw away everything and start again from
scratch now that we all know so much more. I really wish I had the
opportunity to buy a few pints to David, Erik, Tommy, Ian and whoever
else and discuss all of this.
Juliusz
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