The case on having most of scientific packages hosted in Github is quite strong on a reason for moving to Github.
I personally like the idea of using a python Version control system for doing version control... but if the idea is to move to github then perhaps it would be better to move the whole repo to git, now for this I am not sure if it is something that can be easily done... On Thursday, September 25, 2014 12:29:18 PM UTC+2, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > On 09/24/2014 02:36 AM, Joseph Martinot-Lagarde wrote: > > Le dimanche 21 septembre 2014 16:04:51 UTC+2, Adrian Klaver a écrit : > > > > On 09/20/2014 09:22 PM, Ioannis Filippidis wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I would like to ask about thoughts and opinions regarding moving > the > > > development of Spyder to github, using git. > > > > Stay on bitbucket. > > > > Why ? Can you develop your point ? > > The main reason is I find Mercurial a lot easier to use. The secondary > reason is I find the whole history rewriting thing in Git unsettling. > That being said, I did some research on GitHub vs BitBucket and it was > not inspiring for BitBucket. In general BitBucket seems to be falling > behind and in particular with regards to Mercurial support. So at this > point I would say I can live with BitBucket, but would not oppose a move > to GitHub. Might have to explore Hg-Git(hg-git.github.io/) though. > > > > > > I'm personally in favor of moving to git because I'm more used to it and > > I find the branching mechanism simpler. > > > > I think that the most important point regarding github is thatmost > > (all?) python scientific projects are on github. Spyder would gain a lot > > more dynamism than what we have on bitbucket (even if it's already > > better than googlecode). > > > > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > [email protected] <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
