On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 06:56:23PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote:
* Our long-term goal should be to get the *entire* Haskell development community to agree on a version-control system---one that is not darcs. We should expect this process to take several years, and we should expect it to cost money. Would Microsoft or Galois or York or other large players be willing to donate part of an expert's time to migrate to the new version-control system?
It is, of course, up to people with money what they spend it on, but personally I would much prefer to see money spent on making darcs better, for reasons I won't repeat again.
I missed them and wouldn't mind receiving a private note. For the last year I have been hoping to make 'a new darcs-like thing, with a real theory founding it' an important part (one of three) of a grant proposal in distributed computing. So you can see I am in favor of spending money to create a better darcs (which is not quite the same thing as making darcs better; I want to start with a new theory). But I am having second thoughts because I think by the time a proposal reaches a review committee, git may be so firmly entrenched (worse is better) that the work would be considered not worth funding. I realize that I am now firmly off topic, but if people here have opinions, I would be grateful to receive them (perhaps off-list). Norman