Hi > So I suggest we propose moving all the core packages to git, and we > translate all those for which nobody objects to the change. For the others, > we'll keep them in darcs and live with the pain.
Does this mean my (now the communities) FilePath library is going to get moved over to git? I personally don't know Git, and while I'm sure I'll be learning at some point, I'm always nervous about learning a VCS on something I care about, as mistakes can go quite wrong. In addition, things like the Yhc build scripts already check out the darcs version, so will have to be modified*. If it really makes the life easier for people who are having lots of VCS pain at the moment, then its hard to object. But many of the comments in this discussion, about how everyone is going to flock to GHC just as soon as it switches to Git, seem overly optimistic. I think GHC is a few years off becoming drive-by hacker friendly, for many other reasons. The halfway house of switching the compiler, and leaving the libraries in darcs, seems desirable. If Git turns out to be wonderful, as people claim, moving the whole way over is fairly easy and a simple choice. Thanks Neil * Modifying the Yhc build scripts is much harder than modifying the GHC build script, as they are 10,000 lines of Python (a language I don't know) in a very complex framework (which I also don't know)! Of course, this is something for the Yhc team to deal with... _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
