On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Jonathan Vanasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> i was just talking about open source projects in general... >> >> a lot of people seem to be leaving subversion for git, or mercurial, >> or other more distributed apps, and only syncing to the main svn repo >> on a major release > my bad, I though it was a remark regarding pylons.
> Pylons has moved to Mercurial for Pylons, Routes, WebHelpers, and > Ben's other projects. Several other Python packages have also moved > to Mercurial because it's really convenient to commit to your local > repository, share a tentative patch with somebody for testing, and > then push it to the main repository if it's good. The ability to > clone repositories during development is also useful; e.g., to test a > feature/refactoring which may turn out to be a dead end. > Also fast, there is a very nice discussion about this on the turbogears-trunk mailing list, as TG is also moving. If you care to read all the good reasons. > I have stayed away from git because Mercurial is Python, its command > syntax is modeled after Subversion, while git is written in C and has > a reputation for being uebergeek/hard to use. I don't know of any > Python projects using git. > plus it has (had) a bad integration into Windows, which some people still use :) > In the Pylons repositories, people do check in minor changes just like > they do in Subversion. When enough changes accumulate or the BDFL > considers one of them is critical, a release is cut. But note that > some packages have multiple repositories: > > https://www.knowledgetap.com/hg/ > > - pylons-0.9.6 : stable bugfix branch > - pylons-1.0 : experimental 1.0 branch without deprecated/Python 2.3 support > - pylons-dev : development branch (future 0.9.7, now at 0.9.7rc1) > > - routes : Routes 1.x stable and incremental development branch > - routes2-dev : Routes 2 development branch (not yet usable) > > -- > Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
