Florent Becker writes: > I think our mileage varies wildly given that Bazaar and Python have > comfortable market-shares, whereas darcs is an underdog with precious > few contributors.
Nobody has enough contributors. YMMV, but that's not why. > Increasing the time to market for new features will not be viable > for developper motivation, That's very likely true. Sad, but true. > nor for public relations: the only way we can exist is if we show > that innovation still exists in VCS (with respect to the git/hg/bzr > state-of-the-art), and that darcs is where (some of it) happens. On the one side, the statement is false; there are plenty of not terribly innovative projects that do quite well: take the Emacsen for one example. On the other side, it's trivial to show that Darcs is where some VCS innovation happens: Darcs is still the only VCS that can say "we do cherry-pickin' right!" OK, David did that and you can't really claim credit for that in the 2.x series, but that's a developer issue. Ask your users, see what they say. If Zooko says "Darcs isn't innovating fast enough, and I'm thinking about switching to git for that reason", I'd be worried, too. But I don't think he'll say that. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
