[darcs-users] (lack of) darcs hosting

[Iago Abal]

I think the "lack of" darcs hosting is not the cause of people moving to
git/mercurial. First of all an open-source Haskell project has free hosting
(includedf wiki and bug tracker) on community.haskell.org, and any other
non-Haskell project has free repository(+gitit) hosting in patch-tag.com.
Even more, you can get free bug-tracker hosting in other Internet sites... I
don't see why you must have all in the same site.

The 100% of people that I know they moved from Darcs to Git/Mercurial was
due to performance issues, they argued things like "Darcs is unusable when
you have more than N thousand of patches, even tagging frequently". For
instance, a darcs get --lazy of any "big" repository took "a lot of time" in
the past (now fixed), and when you see git does the same very fast... IMHO
this is the main reason Darcs is not more widely used, and not the lack of
hosting. The hosting is a consequence of many people using your VCS and not
the direct reason because people use your VCS. Lot of people will love Darcs
cherry-picking and other features, but nobody likes to have an unusable
repo.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Gour <gour at atmarama.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:10:55 +0100
> >>>>>> "Karel" == Karel Gardas wrote:
>
> Karel> That might be true, but on the other hand what's wrong with
> Karel> http://www.patch-tag.com/ ?
>
> IIRC, there is no bug tracker available, iow. only hosting...
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>
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