[darcs-users] Interesting Subversion blog

Juliusz Chroboczek Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr
Sun May 4 14:18:34 UTC 2008


Ben Sussman, of Subversion fame, has an interesting blog entry:

  I have to say, after using Mercurial for a bit, I think distributed
  version control is pretty neat stuff.
  ...
  I’ve chatted with other developers, and we’ve all come to some
  similar private conclusions about Subversion’s future. First, we
  think that this will probably be the “final” centralized system that
  gets written in the open source world — it represents the
  end-of-the-line for this model of code collaboration.

http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=90

I think that an interesting question is where Darcs fits in.  It is
still the RCS with the best user interface, but Mercurial is slowly
getting better.  I still believe that Darcs is just the right
framework to interoperate with other systems (as I attempted to do
with darcs-git), but I don't have the time to work on this any
further.  (I'm not complaining — it's just that life is interesting
enough without hacking Darcs.)

                                        Juliusz


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