Brett Cannon wrote: > 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.
Ok. I guess that's reasonable, but I think hg is close enough. >> 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. Heh, ok. I just tried it, and it seems I don't have the svn Python bindings set up properly. Never mind, I guess, at least for now. > -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
