Re: [Python-Dev] devguide: More clarifications: use the term 'working copy' and mention 'hg update'.

2011-02-09 Thread Antoine Pitrou
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

Re: [Python-Dev] devguide: More clarifications: use the term 'working copy' and mention 'hg update'.

2011-02-09 Thread Brett Cannon
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

Re: [Python-Dev] devguide: More clarifications: use the term 'working copy' and mention 'hg update'.

2011-02-09 Thread Antoine Pitrou
-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?

Re: [Python-Dev] devguide: More clarifications: use the term 'working copy' and mention 'hg update'.

2011-02-09 Thread Éric Araujo
Le 09/02/2011 23:49, Brett Cannon a écrit : On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:29, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: -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

Re: [Python-Dev] devguide: More clarifications: use the term 'working copy' and mention 'hg update'.

2011-02-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/9/2011 3:29 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: 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). I believe it harkens back to early source code control systems where one person