[elephant-devel] 0.60 tarball missing

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Ian Eslick dies 30/03/2007 hora 08:50:
> I just took a peek at Mercurial - it's basically Darcs written in
> Python although with some C extensions.

Well, not quite. As some Debian developper said, as he switeched from
Darcs to Mercurial, they don't have the same philsophy. Darcs will avoid
conflicts at all costs, thansk to the way it handles patches, whereas
Mercurial will merely make resolving conflicts easy when it's not done
in completely automated way.

> Not sure I like adding yet  another source control to the Lisp
> ecosystem (CVS, SVN, Darcs, etc).   An ideal solution would be
> cl-darcs, but it's not quite mature enough  yet nor are there people
> other than the author using/supporting it.

Do you know if the algorithmic issues of Darcs are implementation
dependent? If not, cl-darcs will suffer the same problem that some
commits operate in unbounded time.

> I'm tempted to just use SVN for the next while, until there is a
> proper cross-platform, distributed source control available

Well, I didn't heard of any problems with Mercurial on Windows. It lacks
a TortoireHg, though, whereas there's a TortoiseDarcs and TortoiseSVN
already (though I only used the latter myself).

Quickly,
Pierre
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