[Developers] darcs

[Erik Schnetter]

On Monday 23 May 2005 12:05, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> Not only due to this, but also the problem that the whole terminology
> and habbit is very different from cvs, which most of the people know,
> I would not like to have Cactus sitting in darcs. If you have
> problems with cvs, please have also a look at other possibilities,
> subversion would be an example.

The main difference between darcs and subversion -- and, consequently, 
between their terminology and work flow -- is that subversion has a 
central server, while darcs has not.

If we want central control, we should use a tool like subversion, and if 
we want to make it easy for people to have local patches in addition to 
the official branch, we should use something like darcs.

Peoples' expectations differ between casual users and developers.  
Someone who just downloads Cactus to various machines can easily live 
with tarballs or cvs, and providing a one-way gateway to these two 
older technologies is probably a must.

-erik

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