On 2008 Aug 3, at 5:35, Andrew Coppin wrote:

Well Darcs already does that. So... what's to develop? It's not like it's slow or buggy. I

slow: see ghc moving away from darcs. once you reach a certain number of patches, it becomes *very* slow --- even with darcs 2's speedups.

buggy: there are known screw cases where darcs cannot solve the constraint problem set by certain combinations of patches.

(I admit to being uncertain about the latter; it sounds to me a lot like the room scheduling problem, which is NP-complete. But I didn't get most of the fancy maths so I could well be wrong.)

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