Robin Becker wrote: > Ilmar Wilbers wrote: >> Discussed recently: >> http://codespeak.net/pipermail/cython-dev/2009-April/004883.html >> >> ilmar >> >> Robin Becker wrote: >>> Is it intentional that the zip file contains the .hg folder. I see 5.365Mb >>> in >>> total of which 3.193Mb appeasr to be in the .hg folder? >>> >> ...... > > so just laziness then :)
No, quote: > 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. This is exactly why we do it. Sage ships this way and I think it's been a significant factor in attracting developers. -- Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
