What about the idea of creating a GUI interface to darcs? I love the command line as much as the next guy, but I think darcs could really benefit from a polished GUI. I used tortoise darcs on a small project a while ago and it was pretty nice, but I think there is potential for much better.
I think that if darcs had a usable GUI then it would be a great advantage over other its competitors and it could tremendously increase its user base. I have been thinking about making a gtk2hs darcs frontend for a while now, what does everyone think about this? On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Haskellers, > > I would like to take an informal poll for the purposes of darcs > recruitment. Could you please complete this sentence for me? > > "I would contribute to darcs if only..." > > The answers I am most interested in hearing go beyond "... I had more > time". For instance, if you are contributing to other Haskell/volunteer > projects, why are you contributing more to them, rather than darcs? > > > > > > > > The context: > > Lately, darcs has suffered a setback: the GHC team has decided that it > is now time to switch to a different system, like git or Mercurial. > This is probably a good thing for GHC and for us. By the way, good > luck to them, and thanks for everything! (better GHC == better darcs) > > But where is darcs going? For now, we are going to have to focus on > what we do best, providing precision merging and a consistent user > interface for small-to-medium sized projects. I want more, though! I > want to see darcs 2.1 come out next year, performance enhanced out the > wazoo, and running great on Windows. And I want to see Future Darcs, > the universal revision control system, seamlessly integrating with > everybody else. > > We need to learn to do better so that darcs can achieve this kind of > wild success. For example, whereas darcs suffers from the "day job" > problem, xmonad has had to turn developers away! > > As Don mentions, this is partly thanks to their extreme accessibility > (better self-documentation). But does anyone have more specific ideas > about things we need to change so that you can contribute to darcs? > How do we hit critical hacker mass? > > I have jotted down some other thoughts here regarding recruitment here: > http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/Recruitment > > In the meantime, if you have been discouraged from hacking on darcs, > we want to know why, and how we can change things! > > Thanks, > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
