On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 17:12, Steve Holden <steve@holdenweb.com> wrote:
And does it look like a non-issue because you are familiar with the Windows environment or because your imagination can't conceive of why it would be a real problem? Does going ahead make development more difficult for the Windows platform? I'm not fully familiar with the issues, but if they were significant enough to persuade Brett that Hg shouldn't go ahead I have to believe they are potential show-stoppers.
It's perceived as not much of an issue, AFAICT, because people feel that using good editors will save you most of the time, pre-push hooks will prevent everyone from actually polluting the central repository, and it would be easy to install pre-commit hooks locally to get an early warning. ISTM that the remaining problem space is a high level of automation that some Windows developers desire, that they got from SVN, but that is quite small because there's a bunch of mitigating factors. It's perceived as a regression, and as making Windows developers second class because most of the issues won't come up on other systems.
Cautiously formulating-ly,
Dirkjan