On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 06:56:23PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote:
* I violently agree with whomever (Don? Malcolm?) said that the Haskell community will prosper to the degree that we have *one* build system and *one* version-control system. And when the build system or version-control system is standard, we gain eyeballs and developers. I haven't found a standard build system that I am willing to use, but I think git is good enough to be used.
* 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. If it makes a difference, I would expect a research paper on how conflictors work would be easy to produce as a side-effect, as we would need to get a good description of how it works, and proofs that it does, anyway. Also, I expect we could get a BSDed darcs as a result. Thanks Ian