On 23-Nov-06, at 2:12 PM, Cyrus Harmon wrote:
I would imagine there are still a reasonable number of platforms for which darcs doesn't exist yet.
As someone who follows along in the development of Slime -- and someone who gets regular updates via CVS -- I can say that I wouldn't be very enthusiastic about switching to darcs. I spend a lot of time in Slime on a Macbook Pro and neither Fink nor MacPorts (formerly DarwinPorts) supports an installation of the Haskell compiler on the Intel architecture yet.
If I had to I would go and build the Haskell compiler myself, but this is not a course of action I would see as favourable. It most certainly would not be favourable to other people I work with who don't spend as much time using Lisp who needed help setting up Slime in the first place.