[darcs-users] Re: .darcs is portable
Michael G Schwern
schwern at pobox.com
Thu Mar 31 23:54:43 UTC 2005
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:28:20PM +0000, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> It's my understanding that CVS is still used much more widely than CVS.
> Isn't CVS what SourceForge is using? So why not model CVS instead? Or
> Arch?
Because as pointed out, CVS got a LOT of things wrong. And SourceForge got
a lot of things wrong. :) And standardization is nice and all, but its only
one thing to consider. All choices being basically equal, standardization
can tip the scale.
Anyhow, I think I've logic'd myself into the _darcs camp though other routes.
> Schwern also brought up, but excluded from his summary, that there are
> portability problems with ".darcs" on VMS.
I don't think there's Haskell compiler under VMS so this is sort of
"long term".
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