[darcs-users] Re: Where Arch is going

[Erik Bågfors]

On 6/1/05, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:23:12PM +0200, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> > On 6/1/05, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> wrote:
> > > Incidentally, this bazaar-ng tutorial seems strikingly similar to darcs
> > > in some areas, right down to bzr send...
> > >
> > > http://www.bazaar-ng.org/tutorial.html
> >
> > Of course, the whole idea of bazaar-ng is to take the best features
> > from darcs, arch, svn, etc and make something even better.  Darcs has
> > some really great things when it comes to easy to use and
> > collaboration over emails etc. Stupid not to use those ideas.
> 
> Right.  But the reason I'm posting here is to get a feel for where darcs
> is headed down the road.
> 
> Let's say that bazaar-ng is successful and implements all that is good
> about darcs.  That would mean there is really no need for darcs any
> longer.  I, for one, wouldn't mind a VC system that has all of darcs'
> features without its performance problems.  Why would people choose
> darcs in that situation?
> 
> What features can darcs pull in from other VCs?  What is the vision for
> where darcs will be in a year or two?
> 
> Most of what I've heard about that question involves not spinning with
> merges and implementing git, but no talk about anything exciting.


I don't think one has to kill another in the short term. In the long
term it may be a different issue. But different people have different
ideas and different views on things. What's really cool about darcs
(the theory of patches) is one of the things that got me started with
it.  It's also one of the problems with darcs IMHO.  So.. some people
like it, some think it's just wrong.

Look at KDE and Gnome. Both are alive and kicking and doing great. So
can bazaar-ng and darcs.

/Erik