Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > Do we really need this? > > $ tar -zxf Cython-0.11.1.tar.gz > $ du -sh Cython-0.11.1 > 11M Cython-0.11.1 > > $ du -sh Cython-0.11.1/.hg > 6.2M Cython-0.11.1/.hg > > $ rm -rf Cython-0.11.1/.hg > $ du -sh Cython-0.11.1 > 4.5M Cython-0.11.1 >
Well, 11M \approx 4.5M \approx 0M :-) An argument in favor is that end-users can very easily contribute a bugfix. If users suddenly encounter a bug they can fix then the fix they do is very likely to happen in the downloaded release directory, and having done that then it's a lot less effort to submit a patch if it's a working repository. Especially with Cython, whose end-users are all developers, this is a nice idea. I don't really mind though. But I have a feeling that the time of making a reliable fix for doing releases without .hg, or even writing this email, far surpass the download time of those few extra MBs... -- Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
