Re: [Chicken-users] Subversion support misguided IMHO

[John Cowan]

Brandon J. Van Every scripsit:

> Apparently, GHC builds are dicey.  

It's GHC *ports* that are hard.  GHC is a full-bore compiler, not a
C generator like Chicken, so if you are trying to port to a new
architecture you wind up writing a new set of code-generator tables.
You can also compile to C, but there are compromises.

> The vast majority of builds out there, totally suck.

My experience is quite otherwise: the vast majority of Unix builds
work fine on Unix, and most of them even work fine on Cygwin as well.

> The issue to me is when the development community is split into 
> different toolchains.  

As long as no one is committing via Subversion, that isn't really a
problem.  The Subversion repository is just a read-only view of the
Darcs one that people can use to check out new versions as needed.

> I am open to ditching Darcs, if there's something as technically 
> advanced, and mature, that has a greater platform reach, that we can all 
> agree on.  

There isn't.  Subversion isn't and wasn't meant to be: it is designed
for a centralized repository only.  Darcs allows fully distributed
repository variants.

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