Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn > <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is exactly why we do it. Sage ships this way and I think it's >> been a significant factor in attracting developers. >> > > Sorry, can't resist... Could you tell me why a developer would be > attracted by this? To make use of ".hg", they need to have mercurial, > then... Do you think any DEVELOPER will find it cumbersome to do "hg > clone http://hg.cython.org/cython"; ??
I usually appriciate myself when projects do this, because otherwise when I encounter something I can fix I must a) Go to the website, find the right repo to clone.. b) Close all my emacs windows and reopen the files in the new location and find back to where I was.. (I'm sure there's a macro for that somewhere but again, that's overhead) c) Transplant any changes I did manually.. The point is that even a) and b) are way too much of an overhead if I'm just hacking away to see if I bother to make a patch (of which there is perhaps a 10% chance) -- then if I suddenly did it, I'd like to avoid c). -- Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
