Re: What is acceptable as 'open-source'? [was Python vs C++]

2014-08-28 Thread Frank Millman
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote in message news:captjjmp_jfxth_l6us30gbotmbyhw_imu-pjdglevgj2nut...@mail.gmail.com... On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Frank Millman fr...@chagford.com wrote: This is quite a timely message for me. I am inching closer to releasing a version of my

Re: What is acceptable as 'open-source'? [was Python vs C++]

2014-08-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Frank Millman fr...@chagford.com wrote: I *think* I have created a project on GitHub and uploaded my software there. It is called AccInABox. https://github.com/FrankMillman/AccInABox Seems to be all there! You seem to have a default README.md as well as your

Re: What is acceptable as 'open-source'? [was Python vs C++]

2014-08-27 Thread Frank Millman
Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote in message news:calwzidkro_hryamwxbk0go-w1oj6ty6myb_c5vhxb6okgol...@mail.gmail.com... Ugh. There seems to be no public repository, and the only source to be found is from release-versioned tarballs, so there's apparently no collaboration other than some

Re: What is acceptable as 'open-source'? [was Python vs C++]

2014-08-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Frank Millman fr...@chagford.com wrote: This is quite a timely message for me. I am inching closer to releasing a version of my accounting software, and a lot of the above comments apply to me as well. At present I am the only developer, and my project is not

Re: What is acceptable as 'open-source'? [was Python vs C++]

2014-08-27 Thread Ned Batchelder
On 8/27/14 3:50 AM, Frank Millman wrote: Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote in message news:calwzidkro_hryamwxbk0go-w1oj6ty6myb_c5vhxb6okgol...@mail.gmail.com... Ugh. There seems to be no public repository, and the only source to be found is from release-versioned tarballs, so there's

Re: What is acceptable as 'open-source'? [was Python vs C++]

2014-08-27 Thread Rustom Mody
On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 5:24:40 PM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote: On 8/27/14 3:50 AM, Frank Millman wrote: Ian Kelly wrote in message Ugh. There seems to be no public repository, and the only source to be found is from release-versioned tarballs, so there's apparently no

hg, git, fossil, ... [was Re: What is acceptable as 'open-source'? [was Python vs C++]]

2014-08-27 Thread Ethan Furman
On 08/27/2014 10:29 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: Git has won the battle Good thing there's room for more than one technology. I use hg because 1) python-dev uses hg; and 2) I understand the simple hg commands. I find git confusing, and my main uses are commit, pull, update, an occasional merge,

Re: hg, git, fossil, ... [was Re: What is acceptable as 'open-source'? [was Python vs C++]]

2014-08-27 Thread Ethan Furman
On 08/27/2014 11:51 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: Thank God for StackOverflow. :-) +1 QotW -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: hg, git, fossil, ... [was Re: What is acceptable as 'open-source'? [was Python vs C++]]

2014-08-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: I use hg because 1) python-dev uses hg; and 2) I understand the simple hg commands. I find git confusing, and my main uses are commit, pull, update, an occasional merge, and a rare rollback -- not complicated stuff. The

Re: What is acceptable as 'open-source'? [was Python vs C++]

2014-08-27 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 27.08.14 09:50, schrieb Frank Millman: This is quite a timely message for me. I am inching closer to releasing a version of my accounting software, and a lot of the above comments apply to me as well. At present I am the only developer, and my project is not hosted anywhere, so I have to

Re: hg, git, fossil, ... [was Re: What is acceptable as 'open-source'? [was Python vs C++]]

2014-08-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: The simple hg commands are generally not all that different (in my limited experience) than the simple git commands, for some definition of simple. Stuff like clone, init, push, pull, commit, the small number of commands you