On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Jarrod Millman
2010/5/25 Stéfan van der Walt
: Awesome! Since github now supports SVN interaction, and all the core devs use Git, now might be a good time to move the entire numpy source tree? It will certainly make it easier to merge the refactor changes!
I would love to move numpy to github as well. Almost everything I work on is there now and I am really enjoying using git and the github infrastructure is really nice. This is obviously a separate issue and one that shouldn't deflect the discussion on the proposed refactoring. But given how many of the developers are using git-svn and that you can use an svn client with github, it might be worth having a quick discussion about this in the near future. For instance, I wonder how many of the developer's prefer using git at this point. Also it would be interesting to hear from any of the developer's who would be opposed to git. A few year's ago this was a hot topic for discussion, but it may be that this isn't very controversial at this point.
I think the main problem has been windows compatibility. Git is best from the command line whereas the windows command line is an afterthought. Another box that needs a check-mark is the buildbot. If svn clients are supported then it may be that neither of those are going to be a problem. However, It needs user testing. Chuck