On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Greg Ewing <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>
>> 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"; ??
>
> Also I think it's a bit impolite to force all the people
> who aren't developers to download twice as much data as
> they're going to use.
>

Moreover, I frequently use easy_install when I need a package in a
hurry. In such cases, tarball releases are downloaded, the package
installed, and next the tarball is just thrown away...



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