[elephant-devel] 0.60 tarball missing

[Erik Garrison]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:55:05PM -0500, Robert L. Read wrote:
> I still insist that we use either Darcs or subversion.  I think Darcs
> may be better, but 
> subversion is much more standard.
> 
> A primary concern must be the each with which the average user,
> including the 
> non-LISP expert, can extract our work.
> 
> We are not so large a project that we have to optimize our use of the
> source
> control system; we should instead optimize the availability to users.
> 
> In fact subversion is promptly better based on that argument.
> 

I've used darcs in another project and found it fantastic and generally
straightforward.

In terms of "trouble to the end user" darcs fares quite well.  A linux
user simply installs darcs via a package system, and then issues "darcs
get http://www.whatever.org/repo" to grab a repository.  

Recording and sending patches is relatively simple as well.  Because of
the interactive nature of recording and sharing patches, a five-sentence
tutorial should suffice to get the new user up and running.

-Erik