On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:05:55PM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: >> No need to apologize, I think I used the work bashing inappropriately >> - I just wanted to say that the only way to understand the differences >> between the tools is to use them. Reading about them will only confuse >> you in my own experience. For example, I tried git once a long time >> ago (during an infamous discussion between git and bzr developers on >> the bzr M), could not understand a thing about it, and did not >> understand any point in it except speed. Then I was forced to use git >> because of bzr-svn constant frustrations - and I ended up to really >> like it. > >> At last scipy conference, I tried to "sell" git advantages to Stefan >> (a long time bzr user as well), who was far from convinced from my >> explanations and my ranting. Then later he used it and liked it. Of >> course, the logical conclusion could be that I am just very bad at >> explaining why I like git :) > > I am pretty convinced that git is an excellent tool, but it forces people > to invest a fare amount of time to learn it. I struggle quite a lot to > have people use _any_ VCS. I just whish they'd make a usability effort. > They could. There are a lot of low hanging fruits. But they don't care. > It is geeks programming for geeks, not for normal users, IMHO.
But that's a development tool. I think it is expected that people have to somewhat learn something about it. I agree we should care about barrier of entry - if there is no way to make Josef happy, for example, that would be a really strong argument against git. But at the risk of being obvious, we should also care about people who work on numpy and scipy codebase on a quasi daily basis, no ? cheers, David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
