[Nitro] Semi-OT: Re: New implementation of Og Validations. (Help needed)

[Judson Lester]

On 3/9/07, Jonathan Buch <john at oxyliquit.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > We all like Haskell. No, seriously, darcs is a great *distributed*
> > version management system.

I continue to question the "great" in that statement.  For all the
"intelligent patch algebra,"
my short experience with darcs is that it falls down in some pretty
basic requirements of a CMS.  That any pull or send could result in
needing to discard work and start over is not really satisfactory.
>From the Darcs wiki: "Also, very large conflicts and complex conflicts
can cause darcs to use an expontential amount of CPU power" - which my
experience requires two devs a day of moderate work to accomplish.

Also, while the option to use an external merge tool exists, the darcs
docco advises that you not use it (and instead deal with ambiguously
marked up source files) for pulls.

> actually quite the opposite, I _loathe_ Haskells compiling speed.  With
> my little computer Haskell almost needed 2 days! to fully compile
> (because it broke in the middle once).  Compiling darcs was no fun either.
>
> That said, I know nothing else of Haskell at all so this statement is
> quite uneducated.  ;)
>
> Jo
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