[overhaul the darcs.net front page. Mark Stosberg **20060820191415 The themes to this change are: - Focus on the key benefits of darcs: Distributed. Interactive. Smart. - Recognize that the wiki is the central resource, and remove some information that is duplicated here and reference the wik instead. I can post a demo of this HTML for easy comparison if you'd like. Mark ] hunk ./index.html.in 7 - + hunk ./index.html.in 14 -

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Hello, I'm David Roundy, the author of darcs.

hunk ./index.html.in 34 - Darcs is a revision control system. Darcs is simple - to learn and use, with a powerful new approach to meet the needs - of today's distributed software projects. Darcs is - decentralized, based on a "theory of patches" with roots - in quantum mechanics. Darcs is free software, licensed under the - GPL. +

Darcs is a free, open source source code management system.

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- Written in Haskell, darcs is used on many operating systems including - Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, and Windows. Darcs includes a CGI - script to browse your repository from the web.

Distributed

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Learn more at the wiki, the community-maintained site for all things darcs.

Every user has access to the full command set, removing + boundaries between server and client or committer and non-committers.

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Interactive

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Download

Precompiled binaries of the latest stable release of darcs for various platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and its siblings, Solaris, and AIX, a dozen flavors of Linux, and Cygwin.
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Documentation

The manual
- - (Also available as Postscript, and in one large HTML file. ) - +
Darcs is easy to learn and efficient to use because it asks + you questions in response to simple commands, giving you choices + in your work flow. You can choose to record one + one change in a file, while ignoring another. As you update + from upstream, you can review each patch name, even the full "diff" + for interesting patches.
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Smart

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Originally developed by physicist David Roundy, darcs is + based on a unique algebra of patches.

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This smartness lets you respond to changing demands + in ways that would otherwise not be possible. Learn + more about spontaneous branches with darcs.

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Code

Darcs is written in Haskell, not in C, so a Haskell compiler is required to compile darcs. In addition, the Haskell compiler is written in Haskell, not in C, so you may experience a bootstrapping problem if a precompiled binary of the Haskell compiler is not available for your machine. For most users, it is not necessary to build darcs from source, and instead one of the precompiled binary packages linked above will suffice.

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Download

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+Binaries and source of the latest stable release of darcs for various platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and its siblings, Solaris, and AIX, a dozen flavors of Linux, and Cygwin.

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While using a binary from above is recommend, here is the latest source code for those who want it.

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You can also get the latest development source directly via darcs: -

-darcs get http://www.abridgegame.org/repos/darcs-unstable/
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or the latest source selected for next release: -

-darcs get http://www.abridgegame.org/repos/darcs/
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The manual includes a section on how to build darcs from source.

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Community

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Community-maintained darcs website

The Darcs Wiki -- The best source for further information.

hunk ./index.html.in 85 -I hope you enjoy darcs! -

-David