On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:29, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:17:51 +0100 > brett.cannon <python-check...@python.org> wrote: >> >> >> -One should always work from a checkout of the CPython source code. While it >> may >> +One should always work from a working copy of the CPython source code. >> +While it may >> be tempting to work from the downloaded copy you already have installed on >> your > > The difference between "downloaded copy" and "working copy" isn't very > clear. The important difference here is between "official stable > version" and "latest development sources".
I'll clarify. > >> -To get a read-only checkout of CPython's source, you need to checkout the >> source >> -code. To get a read-only checkout of >> +To get a read-only checkout of CPython's source, you need a working copy the >> +source code. To get a read-only checkout of > > Why talk about "checkout" at all? It's an SVN/CVS/RCS term, if I'm not > mistaken (even though it may occasionally be used with hg, it's a > synonym of "working copy" there). Since it's a synonym I didn't worry about it. I honestly just thought it flowed better. -Brett > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/brett%40python.org > _______________________________________________ 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
