On Mar 02, 2010, at 08:21 AM, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:36:42AM +0100, Jesus Cea wrote:
I can't wait for HG. I have read the main cutprit for the delay is the line-ending issue with MS Windows developers. Is there anything else holding us back?.
Note that, if you'd just like to use Mercurial for your own convenience while developing, the mirrored repositories at http://hg.python.org/ are up-to-date; you just can't push changes back. I have a regex patch that was developed using an hg checkout of the Python source tree, with my changes layered atop it using the mq extension.
We really need to move to a dvcs for development sooner rather than later. It's been a year since the decision was made. I understand that it will suck for Windows developers in the short term, but with all the discussion about the PSF paying for pdo infrastructure work, I think getting us off of Subversion would have the most immediate positive impact for development of Python. If the EOL issue is the holdup, what can we do *right now* to break that logjam? Can't the PSF pay somebody to make this happen?
-Barry