[slime-devel] Re: Mercurial

[Helmut Eller]

* Gary King [2008-03-04 17:18+0100] writes:

> Speaking with my common-lisp.net admin hat on, I'm happy to install
> either git, hg or both.  In fact, they'd probably be good to have in
> any case.
>
> With my usual hat on (the one with funny ears), I'm wondering "why not
> darcs?". Did darcs lose out in the DVCS "wars" because they haven't
> managed to fix the "exponential time" bug?

I think the more serious Darcs' problem is the dependence on
Haskell/GHC, which is a much more exotic requirement than Python.

Helmut.