[darcs-users] [soc] project summary & first progress report

[Petr Rockai]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Jason Dagit writes:
>
>  > I googled for "Gorsvet" to find out what it means, but I didn't notice
>  > anything that explained it.  What is Gorsvet?  My preference of naming
>  > would be to stick to a module name that is easily understood,
>
> I agree that the name should be understandable, but I also appreciate
> the growing internationalization of the community as an intangible but
> real benefit.
>
> Just include a What-is-Gorsvet or README.Gorsvet which explains the
> choice of name (as well as what the branch is all about).  It doesn't
> *need* to be more than two or three lines.
>
> I know not everybody feels as I do, but on the other hand we should
> respect an author's right to name her work, and it's a minimal
> additional effort to read a short README.

Well, this is just a module name. It comes from gorsvet the alternative darcs
client. I couldn't come up with a descriptive name, so I picked this one (it
was originally a play on words). The module in darcs is not supposed to stay
around forever anyway, it's more like hatching grounds for integration code
between hashed-storage and darcs. When things stabilise, I'll move things out
of Darcs.Gorsvet, into more appropriate places (and remove both superseded code
and Darcs.Gorsvet itself).

Yours,
   Petr.

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