Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: >On 11/23/2014 07:03 PM, Ryan wrote: >> I can agree with most of these points. Some more things to consider: >> >> - Git is 20x faster than Hg (that's 99% of the reason I switched and >hate using >> Darcs) > >You won't get much traction with this argument around here. As long as >there >aren't specific complaints about slowness (which probably could be >fixed by a >discussion on mercurial-devel), Hg is "fast enough", just like Python >is "fast >enough" compared to C. (Otherwise, why bother.)
I know, but, when checking out large repos, it stings a little. > >> - GitHub is much nicer than BitBucket. I usually look for a git >mirror of a >> BitBucket repo since I hate browsing on BB > >I agree, Github's UI is nicer than BB. It is also true that most >features >that are introduced on BB are "inspired" by GH. > >> - Even Plan9Port moved from Hg to GitHub a few days ago > >Projects move all the time. Why is this one special? Because, for ages, everything related to Rob Pike used Google Code and Mercurial, largely because he works at Google. > >> - Some Google devs even host their projects on GitHub (not Google >Code) >> >> Thank goodness no one has mentioned CodePlex. >> >> BTW, I frown on projects that choose something largely inferior over >a better >> choice just because "one is written in X language." Now, if >python.org >> <http://python.org> was written in Ruby, that would just be sad, but >certain >> things just don't matter. Like DVCS's. > >You can read up PEP 374 for the reasons for Hg. The main reasons >against git >were lacking Windows support (which probably is good enough now) and >developer >preference. > >Georg > > >_______________________________________________ >Python-Dev mailing list >Python-Dev@python.org >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >Unsubscribe: >https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/rymg19%40gmail.com -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Check out my website: http://kirbyfan64.github.io/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
