Re: [Haskell-cafe] Darcs users [was: New book: Real-World Haskell!]

I didn't say there weren't others, simply that I didn't know of any others (I don't just go looking for things online all the time...having a real job really gets in the way of these things)! So I wasn't really trying to disparage darcs. But here's another statistic: http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=darcs+inurl:_darcs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Results 1 - 50 of about 54,100 for darcs inurl:_darcs. (0.38 seconds) http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=svn+inurl:svn&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Results 1 - 50 of about 995,000 for svn inurl:svn. (0.14 seconds) That's 54,000 pages vs. 995,000 pages. That really was more my point. (BTW, cvs is still [Results 1 - 50 of about 2,920,000 for cvs inurl:cvs. (0.17 seconds)]) I *want* people (and companies) to move to Haskell; therefore, I want to lower the entry "price". The goal is to introduce a new language, not a new SCM tool. You certainly wouldn't want to leave the impression that one MUST use darcs in order to use Haskell! On 5/26/07, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

On 26/05/07, Matthew Sackman wrote:

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(On the other hand, I don't know of anyone outside immediate "haskellers" using Darcs.)

Good idea to get some data on this, instead of speculating. Let's do that. A quick google reveals the Haskell crew is far from alone as users.

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=_darcs

Here's the first 20 hits google finds:

repo.nitroproject.org/_darcs/ darcs.pugscode.org/_darcs/ common-lisp.net/project/cffi/darcs/cffi/_darcs/ www.cymraeg.ru/repos/geiriadur/_darcs/current/ www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/polymer/_darcs/ <-- Haskell www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/goa/_darcs/ <-- Haskell zargon.hobbesnet.org/~squires/repos/torbutton/_darcs/ facets.rubyforge.org/src/_darcs/ www.n-heptane.com/nhlab/repos/cabalDebianTemplate/_darcs/ www.khjk.org/~sm/code/advopost/_darcs/ repetae.net/john/repos/GetOptions/_darcs/ <-- Haskell james.tooraweenah.com/darcs/netrek-server/_darcs/ users.tkk.fi/~ptotterm/darcs/macports/_darcs/ mumble.net/~campbell/darcs/slime48/_darcs/ galinha.ucpel.tche.br/chicken/_darcs/ mp3fs.sourceforge.net/mp3fs/_darcs/ www.scannedinavian.com/~eric/hpaste/_darcs/ <-- Haskell www.lshift.net/~tonyg/json-scheme/_darcs/ darcs.fh-wedel.de/hxt/_darcs/ <-- Haskell

Of which only 5/20 are Haskell repos.

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