Hello Simon, Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 5:46:59 PM, you wrote:
GHC needs "core libraries" without which it cannot be built. It is obviously highly desirable that a developer can build GHC with just one VCS, which suggests that the core libraries should be in git too. But those same core libraries are used by nhc98 and Hugs (I think that's all), and the last thing we want to do is to impose new costs on other implementations. Diversity in implementation is a Good Thing.
why not ask hugs/nhc maintainers to switch to git too? it seems that darcs while being good solution for small/medium programs, hardly may be used for ghc. so, probably it should be divided to 2 parts: "large things" including compilers and corelibs should go into git and "small things" including all the 3rd-party libs should stay with darcs -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com