Graham Klyne writes:
I took a look at the Subversion site [...]
Just for the sake of adding even more confusion to the already large variety of options, I'd like to mention Monotone http://www.venge.net/monotone/. Of all the VC systems I have used, this appears to be the "most" distributed one. It's also the only VC system I know, which uses strong cryptography to properly authenticate patches. (Darcs authenticates -- if I remember correctly -- the e-mail in which the patch is submitted, but not the patch content itself as it's stored in the database.) I have been using Monotone for several months now, and I am quite happy with it. Its repository architecture would probably work very well for the Haskell community, especially since it supports a global hierarchical name space, exactly like Haskell modules do. Peter