On Dec 27, 2007 11:06 PM, Matt Nordhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brett Cannon wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2007 2:40 PM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Alexandre Vassalotti wrote: > >>> Well, I been working on branches since the beginning. Although, I now > >>> use Mercurial (which is lovely IMHO) to keep my changes (url: > >>> http://peadrop.com/alex-py3k/). > >> Someday I need to play with Hg. It looks interesting and I've heard only > >> good about it. > >> > > > > It is nice. Once Mercurial hits version 1.0 I am going to look at > > whether it is reasonable to move Python to hg or bzr to make it easier > > for people to do development on their own machines with local checkins > > instead of forcing people who can't create a branch to create their > > own VCS solution when doing offline work. >
Just so people know, I won't start this for months, so we don't need to keep discussing this and making noise on python-dev about it. > Why wait until 1.0? Hg is mature and used by a number of major projects. > Yes, I know it is mature and used by many people, but for something as critical as our VCS, I want the developers to be so much behind it they are willing to call it version 1.0. > BTW, there's a copy of Python's trunk converted to bzr on Launchpad: > <https://code.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/python/trunk> > (that's the web page, not the branch itself) > > I don't know of any conversions to hg. I half want to do it myself, but > I'm afraid to try to download so much from svn.python.org. :-P Well, I won't stop you. We get so much download traffic I doubt downloading the entire history by one person will be a big deal. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
