Welcome to a revolution in version control!

Installation on my Mac was straightforward. I have a standard Panther installation with Fink and Xcode. To get darcs compiled, I used the ghc, ghc-dev fink packages. I got some error messages with gmp and readline which was promptly fixed by installing those fink packages. ./configure—prefix=~/root ; make ; make install ; and you’re done.

Why do I think it’s so great?

• Straightforward to install


• Distributed repositories rock for people whose primary machine is a notebook


• Simple repository setup (just “darcs initialize” a directory baby!) makes it easy to version control anything


• Free software GPL-ed


• Written in Haskell and a Theory of Patches, just too geeky!

I’m not the only person with similar thoughts.