Python source code on Bazaar vcs
Sorry for the double post, Jeroen :|
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matthieu Brucher matthieu.brucher@gmail.com Date: 21 mars 2008 10:03 Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python source code on Bazaar vcs To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai@in-nomine.org
2008/3/21, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai@in-nomine.org:
(To provide counterweight.)
-On [20080320 20:44], Barry Warsaw (barry@python.org) wrote:
We have not made a decision to move to Bazaar officially, nor have we
made
a decision to even move off of Subversion.
Good, because between this now and pytz the other 63 projects I follow use Subversion or Mercurial. Bazaar seems to be mostly limited to Ubuntu users and stuff Canonical does, so the choice for a Bazaar setup next to Subversion strikes me a bit as odd. Mercurial is also Python, distributed and with a, as far as I (can) track things, bigger market share than Bazaar.
Hi,
This is not quite true. One of the main bzr developers is a Windows guy, so the user base is/will be large, far larger than only Ubuntu. A lot of projects switched to bzr because of this. Honestly, I think that Hg and bzr fill the same need, but bzr developement at the moment is fantastic. For a still young product it is a good think (Hg is older). One additional good think is that there is a Sourceforge-like site that uses bzr ; launchpad.net. I don't know of something equivalent for Hg.
Just my two (euro) cents ;)
Matthieu
Matthieu Brucher schrieb:
Good, because between this now and pytz the other 63 projects I follow use Subversion or Mercurial. Bazaar seems to be mostly limited to Ubuntu users and stuff Canonical does, so the choice for a Bazaar setup next to Subversion strikes me a bit as odd. Mercurial is also Python, distributed and with a, as far as I (can) track things, bigger market share than Bazaar.
This is not quite true. One of the main bzr developers is a Windows guy, so the user base is/will be large, far larger than only Ubuntu. A lot of projects switched to bzr because of this. Honestly, I think that Hg and bzr fill the same need, but bzr developement at the moment is fantastic. For a still young product it is a good think (Hg is older). One additional good think is that there is a Sourceforge-like site that uses bzr ; launchpad.net http://launchpad.net. I don't know of something equivalent for Hg.
In any case, the reason for using a VCS should never be the market share, but its advantages for development, e.g. speed, usability, community support.
cheers, Georg
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