[darcs-devel] [darcs #507] problem: some people fail to install darcs

[Zooko via RT]

Fri Sep 02 10:46:59 2005: New ticket: 507.
Transaction: Ticket created by zooko
       Queue: Darcs
     Subject: problem: some people fail to install darcs
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: zooko at zooko.com
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: http://bugs.darcs.net/.//Ticket/Display.html?id=507 >


>From anecdotal evidence (about four samples now), the most common reason for
people to try darcs and then decide not to use it is that they can't get it
compiled.  This is sadly ironic since darcs has phenomenal ease-of-learning and
ease-of-use once you have a working binary.

A very easy and probably effective solution is to re-arrange the home page
http://darcs.net/ to point *first* to the collection of working binaries, and
only *secondarily* to the Haskell sources.

(For what it is worth the second most common reason is the hassle of
configuring darcs and ssh on Windows.  I'm working on that myself.)

Regards,

Zooko