Hi all, DVCS discussions are notoriously unproductive, aren't they :)
The two systems under discussion, git and hg, are both *almost* what we want, which means we have to make a choice and compromise. Here are some of the pros and cons I've picked up, and I'm sure you can add more: Git has well-integrated in-place branches, allows you to easily do "patch carving" (i.e. manipulation of patches to get them Just Right (TM)) and is very fast. Mercurial has a more intuitive interface / less confusing error messages in places, has a very good http serving protocol, is written in and used by Python. Bzr wasn't included in the discussion, but its patience diff algorithm and good user interface is worth mentioning. We have to decide which of these attributes are more important to the developers and users of NumPy and SciPy, and then go with that system. Alternatively, we can simply ignore the arguments and pick one randomly. Having any DVCS in place would improve the situation and, besides, it's easy to switch to another system later if we make an enormous error in judgement. Regards Stéfan _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
