Re: [darcs-users] Re: [Haskell-cafe] fptools in darcs now available

Sven Panne wrote:
> [ Slowly redirecting to the cvs-fptools list... ]
> 
> Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > On 20050501T202815+0200, Sven Panne wrote:
> > 
> >>So my question in a nutshell: Why shall we move away from the mainstream
> >>when the rest of the world (or most of) is quite happy with CVS or is
> >>moving to subversion?
[..]
> Don't get me wrong: I am quite aware of the limitations of CVS and I would
> *never* start a fresh project with CVS. But Subversion is a very worthy
> successor and being "the oldest" as you mentioned is a definite plus in the
> mission-critical area of version management systems.
> 
> I don't want to start a version management jihad, I just want to understand
> and discuss the reasons for the plan mentioned by SimonM to move fptools to
> darcs. For our concrete project: In which respects (i.e. use cases) is darcs
> better than Subversion?

Maybe I am off the track here, but isn't the right question: Is Darcs
sufficient for fptools?  If it is, the one reason to adopt it is because
it is written in Haskell, and we like to promote Haskell.

Manuel