Fred Drake wrote:
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
The two sets of repositories use different conversion tools and rules. They have nothing in common (different changeset IDs, different metadata, different branch/clone layout).
I'd love to see a more detailed description of this, including why someone new to Mercurial would choose one over the other.
This information really belongs in www.python.org/dev/ rather than only in the mailing list.
+1 As does a recent essay by Eli Bendersky, IMO. I believe it could lower the barriers for entry into the "non-committer" class of developer. This should make it easier for people to adapt Python to their own purposes whether or not they want to contribute to the open source code base, but also encourage people to investigate the compiler's innards. http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/06/30/python-internals-adding-a-new-statem... regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010 http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/