Re: GNU Arch and Lua

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 16:21 +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote:

> Suffice it to say that as evil as the clutches of tl. are; Arch is a
> very good revision control system.

Although it gets the most important feature of any piece of software
completely, utterly and unforgivably wrong: The user interface.  (Well,
certainly tla does, I don't know if the interface itself is specified by
the general Archiness of things.)  It's inconsistent, ugly, long-winded,
unintuitive, and will wear out your hyphen key in a mater of minutes.

I'm sure it's a very competent version control system past that though.
I think the problem is that most people don't get that far.

What about Monotone?  I've not looked at it at all recently, but it used
Lua quite extensively if I recall, and has some of the distributed
features that seem fashionable these days.

R.  (Who's quite happy with Perforce and Subversion for now :-)
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