In the aftermath of our last interview with Tom Lord, regardless of personalities, it became apparent that the idea of decentralizing CVS is a big deal. Many mentioned darcs as an alternative to Arch. Mark Strosberg has interviewed project head-hancho David Roundy about darcs, his “theory of patches”, what’s next, and on using Haskell for the project.
Interview with David Roundy of Darcs on Source Control
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I have to say this:
Whatever other qualities darcs might have, it is the only user-friendly version control system I have ever seen.
Nice to see functional languages being used in large scale projects. Go Haskell!
I agree, darcs is very user friendly. I learned the basics within an hour.