[darcs-users] Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

[Nimrod A. Abing]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:18:27 -0800, Alexey N. Solofnenko
<A.Solofnenko at mdl.com> wrote:
> Arch does not work on Windows very well - it crashed while importing ANT
> repository because it likes to use files with very long names. Arch is
> currently out for me. Darcs also has few bugs on Windows (it was
> impossible to specify token characters in "replace" command and darcs
> crashed once forcing my to recreate local repository), but otherwise it
> works quite well.

Arch uses some Unixy stuff internally (e.g. hardlinks) that cannot be
emulated properly on Cygwin. And it felt clunky, or at least that's
the current consensus over here. I had once considered Peter Miller's
Aegis <http://aegis.sourceforge.net/> but reading from the Aegis
documentation it had a lot of Unix dependencies and a Windows port is
a far-and-away possibility at the moment
<http://aegis.sourceforge.net/windowsnt.html>. Then I found darcs
which is simpler to use and suited most of our needs, darcs being able
to sort of work under Windows was also a plus since some of our
developers don't have a choice.
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_nimrod_a_abing_