Hi. I'm jumping into the discussion mid-way.
Guillaume Hoffmann wrote:
I don't know the magic formula to create the best darcs propaganda,
but from my experience with colleagues, I can tell that there are a
few "darcs facts" that they do NOT care about:
* being around since 2002 (CVS was around since longer,is it better ?)
* being written in Haskell
* being written by a physicist
* involving an algebra of patches
* being written by honest, skeptical, humble, and audacious people (in
one word: scientists :-) )
+1
Seems better to sell features/solutions. How is Darcs better for you
compared to other SCMs? Off the top of my head, I would list:
* Very simple easy to use.
* Amazing patch management. You commit patch A then B then C. You decide
to modify or delete A. Other SCMs say "no can do". Darcs says "no problem!".
* Distributed. You can work off-line. Any sub-group of developers can
share packages between themselves.
* Really easy branches. Really easy merging. It just works.
This would belong more to a "Darcs vs other DCVS" wiki page. I feel a
direct confrontation with other DCVSes does not belong to a homepage.
Sounds defensive.
In this specific instance I agree. But in general I'll say that it is
hard to say what is special about your product without comparing at
least a little. My example above includes a comparison in the second
bullet point.
Users are more interested by the outcome than by the way it works internally.
See for instance
http://www.3ofcoins.net/2008/12/16/darcs-vs-git-mathematician-versus-engineer/
Yeah. You don't want to look like an ivory-tower mathematecian who is
detached from reality.
- though the internals are very clever, you don't have to be very
clever to use Darcs.
I agree with you on this, and I think this is the only place where we
should allude to darcs' internals.
It's also a good sound-bite: "Darcs is very clever. You don't have to be
very clever to use Darcs".
Daniel.
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