On 11/07/2012 12:29 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
It really is The One True Church behavior. We don't exist, have no organization, etc. because we had the presumption to not use The Holy Github? This is the message of Github evangelists, repeatedly, on multiple projects.
From my perspective, it's the darcs camp that looks like a religious grouping, sticking with the philosophically pure structure while everyone else is getting work done on the other side of the wall. Heretofore, I shrugged, and thought "Not my project, they like the tools
I'm a Haskell outsider except for that which is necessary to run XMonad. It appears to me that there are many folks who are in a similar spot: XMonad appears to be one of the products in the Haskell space that attracts converts. So expect the XMonad population is relatively poorly initiated into the Functional School. they've got, more power to them." But since the topic is open... I'd find it easier to interact with the project if I only had to fight with the language, instead of fighting with the VC and the language both. I expect the other poorly-initiated folks have a similar perception: using The Philosophically Correct Haskell VC registers mostly as additional learning curve to participate. Take a look at the google trail of darcs vs. git; it peters out in 2010. I haven't done surveys, but I attribute this to GHC dropping darcs in favor of git. Here's what they had to say about it. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DarcsEvaluation I'd recommend shifting to something that feels comfortable to the average young nerd who stumbles across XMonad on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_window_manager because that's who we want to take an interest and hack. - Allen S. Rout