[darcs-devel] darcs hacking priorities

[Eric Y. Kow]

Hi all,

Thought you might be interested in this recent reddit thread:
  http://programming.reddit.com/info/20cyu/comments/c20mqo

wherein tgbyhn says about darcs:

> Its development process is broken: There is no planning, a constant
> stream of pet features added, no focus on fixing the real issues. The
> source code is an unreadable, undocumented mess (and not because it's
> in Haskell).

and in a later comment:

> The conflict handling problem wasn't the only major issue that made me
> dislike Darcs. At the time I stopped using it, the "partial checkout"
> feature didn't work. Also, I never felt comfortable using it on Windows
> because there were enough Windows-specific issues that made it seem like
> nobody was even testing it on that platform. Furthermore, the
> documentation said something like "The developers don't version binary
> files so we don't care how poorly they are supported." Many operations
> are slow, not just conflict resolution. Suggestions for good Unicode
> support and better handling of binary files were sidelined for
> questionable reasons.
> 
> My complaint about the development process is mostly about prioritizing.
> Everybody in the Darcs community seems to be aware of these big issues.
> And, there are little bugs that remained in the tracker for months and
> months without progress being made on them. Yet, new (IMO, marginal)
> features were being added almost constantly.

I'll likely be offline for a few days, but I thought you might be
interested in these comments

Your occasional darcs barometer,

-- 
Eric Kow                     http://www.loria.fr/~kow
PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9         Merci de corriger mon français.
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