Mark Hammond writes: > I'm not sure what point you are trying to make, but I believe it *is* > possible for a solution to be found here which will keep Windows users > happy. I'm guessing you haven't had much practical experience with this > problem, so probably don't see this is clearly as Windows users do.
Mercurial is not only open source, it's written in Python. The problem is known to be hard in a practical sense, the existing solutions (written by non-Windows developers, of course) are judged to be insufficient by Windows users, and the non-Windows developers "probably don't see this is clearly as Windows users do." I think the implication is obvious. There will be no good solution until Windows users develop it. I don't see a good reason to wait for that. I do see good reason for non-Windows users to put up with some inconvenience during the "beta" phase of implementing that solution; it's important enough to be fast-tracked, and doesn't need to be perfect for everybody to be tried (though it should not be allowed to endanger repo content, which seems unlikely but needs care since it's a potential disaster). _______________________________________________ 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
