[darcs-users] Re: Re: Where Arch is going

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 18:18:15 UTC 2005


Erik Bågfors wrote:

> 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.
> 
Yes, good example.  KDE and Gnome interoperate and do try to standardize.





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