On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kirill Smelkov wrote: >> I can speak about both hg and git, becase I've used both of them, and even >> when I've started from hg ([1] + some development at work) for exactly the >> same reasons you mention, and used hg a lot - see e.g. [2], for me the >> clear winner is git: >> >> >> 1. git has good support on win32 too: >> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ > > well, a lot of Windows users (like the ones I work with) would not > consider needing Mysys or cygwin "good" Windows support. > > Hg has TortoiseHg, which I can't say I've used, but appears similar to > TortoisSVN which is very nice. There are also a bunch of GUI tools for > Hg, though I have no idea if any of them are any good. > > Anyway, nothing has wide support like SVN, but SVN has all its > limitations. As long as source snapshots are regularly available, > anything should be OK -- the core developers should choose whatever they > like best.
I don't want to get into a discussion about the merits of different VC systems, but just wanted to note that GitHub does provide download links in both zip and tar.gz format for each separate commit (and tags, branches). cheers, Kai -- CTO Kai Lautaportti Hexagon IT Oy [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hexagonit.fi +358-40-486-9803 _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
