On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Jarrod Millman <millman@berkeley.edu> wrote:

2010/5/25 Stéfan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>:

> 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.