David Cournapeau wrote: > Hi Travis, > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Travis E. Oliphant > <oliph...@enthought.com> wrote: > >> FYI from PyCon >> >> Here at PyCon, it has been said that Python will be moving towards DVCS >> and will be using bzr or mecurial, but explicitly *not* git. It would >> seem that *git* got the "lowest" score in the Developer survey that >> Brett Cannon did. >> > > It is interesting how those tools are viewed so differently in > different communities. I am too quite doubtful about the validity of > those surveys :) > > >> The reasons seem to be: >> >> * git doesn't have good Windows clients >> > > Depending on what is meant by good windows client (GUI, IDE > integration), it is true, but then neither do bzr or hg have good > clients, so I find this statement a bit strange. What is certainly > true is that git developers care much less about windows than bzr (and > hg ?). For example, I would guess git will never care much about case > insensitive fs, etc... (I know bzr developers worked quite a bit on > this). > > >> * git is not written with Python >> > > I can somewhat understand why it matters to python, but does it matter to us ? > > There are definitely strong arguments against git - but I don't think > being written in python is a strong one. The lack of a good window > support is a good argument against changing from svn, but very > unconvincing compared to other tools. Git has now so much more > manpower compared to hg and bzr (many more project use it: the list of > visible projects using git is becoming quite impressive) - from a 3rd > party POV, I think git is much better set up than bzr and hg. Gnome > choosing git could be significant (they made the decision a couple of > days ago). > > >> I think the sample size was pretty small to be making decisions on >> (especially when most opinions where "un-informed"). >> > > Most people just choose the one they first use. Few people know > several DVCS. Pauli and me started a page about arguments pro/cons git > - it is still very much work in progress: > > http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/GitMigrationProposal > > Since few people are willing to try different systems, we also started > a few workflows (compared to svn): > > http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/GitWorkflow > > FWIW, I have spent some time to look at converting svn repo to git, > with proper conversion of branches, tags, and other things. I have > converted my own scikits to git as a first trial (I have numpy > converted as well, but I did not put it anywhere to avoid confusion). > This part of the problem would be relatively simple to handle. > > cheers, > > David > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > It is now official that Python will switch to Mercurial (Hg): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/102706
Not that it directly concerns me, but this is rather surprising given: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/ Hopefully more details will be provided in the near future. Bruce _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
