Re: Unison

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Nathan Hurst <njh@hawthorn.csse.monash.edu.au> writes:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > Should have known from the academic URL that it would be written in
> > ML. Sigh.
> 
> And what's wrong with that? So there are going to be two implementations,
> Sigh.
> 

Very few people have an ML compiler or know how to hack ML, and it
can't be put in a C library for use by other apps.

It's a pain to install, a pain to find/fix bugs in, and not
interoperable. ;-)

Moreover right now a working ML compiler and ML/GTK bindings are not
required to maintain a working GNOME desktop, so those are significant
additional maintenance burdens.

Havoc