Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262424AbVDGKyR (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 06:54:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262425AbVDGKyR (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 06:54:17 -0400 Received: from host62-24-231-113.dsl.vispa.com ([62.24.231.113]:34706 "EHLO cenedra.walrond.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262424AbVDGKyN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 06:54:13 -0400 From: Andrew Walrond To: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:54:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <87d5t73pnf.fsf@osv.topcon.com> <20050407103018.GA22906@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20050407103018.GA22906@merlin.emma.line.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504071154.01163.andrew@walrond.org> X-Spam-Score: -4.8 (----) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1487 Lines: 37 I recently switched from bk to darcs (actually looked into it after the author mentioned on LKML that he had imported the kernel tree). Very impressed so far, but as you say, > 1. It's rather slow and quite CPU consuming and certainly I/O consuming I expect something as large as the kernel tree would cause problems in this respect. > 2. It has an impressive set of dependencies around Glasgow Haskell > Compiler. I don't personally have issues with that, but I can already > hear the moaning and bitching. :) I try to built everthing from the original source, but in this case I couldn't. The GHC needs the GHC + some GHC addons in order to compile itself... > > 3. DARCS is written in Haskell. This is not a problem either, but I'd > think there are fewer people who can hack Haskell than people who > can hack C, C++, Java, Python or similar. It is still better than True, though as you say, not a show-stopper. >From a functionality standpoint, darcs seem very similar to monotone, with a couple minor trade-offs in either direction. I wonder if Linus would mind publishing his feature requests to the monotone developers, so that other projects, like darcs, would know what needs working on. Andrew Walrond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/