Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> writes:
Why are there effectively 3 forks on virtualenv now, just to get it to use distribute? Is it really so hard to work with Ian Bicking to be the real virtualenv using distribute instead of setuptools, especially in the way of the bdfl pronouncement?
You do realise that, because those branches share ancestry with Ian's branch, they can be merged back in? That, by being able to put a branch online that the VCS tool knows how to merge, it's much *easier* to collaborate than with centralised VCS? That, without any explicit co-ordination between the parties, Ian Bicking can take any of those branches and merge whatever changes he finds appropriate back into his own branch, and vice versa? This is the strength of distributed VCS like Bazaar, Git, and Mercurial: you're seeing *more* collaboration because there is less administrative barrier required to put a branch online and still have it be VCS-compatible with the original. -- \ “It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” | `\ —David Hume | _o__) | Ben Finney