[darcs-users] darcs & git

[Jason Dagit]

On 11/13/06, Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>
> Let's give up that kernel fetishism.
>
> There used to be exactly two repositories with over 1'000'000 lines of
> code in the Free Software world, the Linux kernel and XFree86.  Now
> that XFree86 is dead, and X.Org have done the reasonable thing and
> split their repository into pieces, there's only one left.  How much
> development effort should we be spending on a single repository whose
> developers are happy with their current tools anyway?
>
> A more reasonable size is that of Ghc, and that's something we should
> care about more than we do:
>
>   http://bugs.darcs.net/issue?%40search_text=simonpj
>   http://bugs.darcs.net/issue?%40search_text=simonmar

Juliusz is 100% correct here in my opinion.  And also, the Simons have
been kindly reporting their problems and afaik, very few of their bug
reports have been worked on.  Getting the windows support to be first
class would be one way to help out the Simons (it appears SPJ is using
windows in most of his bugs).

Jason