[darcs-users] Mac OS X installation barriers /was Re: ANNOUNCE: darcs 2.5.2
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Tue Sep 6 17:28:19 UTC 2011
Ash Moran writes:
> My feeling is that [the installation obstacle course on Mac] is a
> barrier to darcs adoption, at least among people I know.
Sure. I use all the common free VCSes for something or other, but I
don't bother to keep Darcs up-to-date on the Mac for precisely this
reason. If that means that I can't keep some code up-to-date on Mac
via Darcs because the repo wants a more recent Darcs than is provided
by MacPorts, I'll mirror to git on a GNU/Linux system, and use that to
keep my Macs up to date. (Hasn't happened yet.)
[I still "like" Darcs, and recommend it reasonably often to fellow
LUGgers, but not to Mac users, and it doesn't fit the way I work. Git
does. Too much beach volleyball and drugs in grad school, I guess. :-)
Anyway, I don't use Darcs for own projects at this time, so little
incentive to stay on the bleeding edge.]
> What this means is that when I tell someone I use darcs, and they
> ask what it is and why (and why I don't "just use git"), I can't
> say "it's cool because it does X, Y and Z really well, just give it
> a go!". Because I know most will just give up before they get over
> the installation barrier*.
Yup. I'm shocked ("shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you") at the degree to
which people's willingness to do anything more than type "$PMS
install" has decayed in recent decades. Kids today! :-)
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