Re: [xmonad] xmonad development

I think most of the threads of your response are addressed in other branches of this conversation, but this deserves a point On 11/07/2011 06:10 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

On 8 November 2011 04:59, Allen S. Rout wrote:

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So, in order to use your WM, I have to completely bathe in haskell, down to learning the ideosyncratic, haskell-only VC you guys have cooked up.

Whilst darcs has its greatest popularity in the Haskell community, it is used elsewhere (albeit nowhere near as much, and even with Haskell packages a lot of people have switched to Git due to GitHub). But "ideosyncratic"?

Mea culpa. I have nothing to back that up with, and am merely imputing gratuitous differences because darcs has adherents in a world that also contains git. This is error. :P Please permit me to rephrase my bias in a way that is at least rational. When comparing DVC systems, it seems to me that a community size / mindshare advantage as large as that which git possesses overwhelms any consideration short of actual objective feature fail. When I started searching on darcs vs. git, the comparisons I saw appeared to focus on surface UI problems. (The client prompts you for contact information if it doesn't have it, and that's a point of evangelism?) So I filed darcs as "Project loved by some haskell adherents because it's haskell. ". I don't want to follow this thread down the darcs vs. path. (at least not on the list) But I wanted to acknowledge my error, and thank you for responding to it gently. - Allen S. Rout