On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM, <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 01:12, Jeff Hall wrote: >>> >>> Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a >>> different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to >>> be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case. >>> For the DVCS, I'd just write a little script that would (1) update (2) >>> open the editor on the file (3) do the commit/push dance when the file >>> was closed. So for me it would be as easy as editing the file locally. >>> >>> So for my work style, a DVCS would be the biggest win. >>> >>> --RDM >> >> That's funny because I would expect that for most people it's the exact >> opposite... just create a gmail account... boom, done... I'm not >> necessarily >> advocating that but just saying that IMO, most people will find google >> docs >> to be the "fastest" and "easiest" solution. > > The ease of creating a gmail account has nothing to do with the point > to which I was responding (context which is lost from your reply). > That's setup. I was responding to a point talking about in-the-moment > workflow. A browser and a GUI javascript program are slower than a unix > command line based editor such as vim or emacs both to open up and to use. > Thus for me, by using a script to automate the part that the OP suggested > would slow the dvcs user down (the update/commit/push cycle), I make > the dvcs in-the-moment workflow much faster _for me_ than Google Docs. > > As I said it's a matter of personal style. Some people _will_ find > Google Docs easier and more productive than a dvcs. My point was that > not all people will.
That's a discussion that can never come to a decent conclusion. We will never find a solution that works for *everyone*, and IMO we don't need to bend over backwards to try. I don't doubt for a second that for *most* people the barrier to using Google Docs is less than the barrier to using a DVCS, even if when you take a sampling of hard core open source developers that might not be so clear-cut. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
