[core-workflow] Fate of SVN externals

[Antoine Pitrou]

Hello,

Windows builds rely on hand-maintained copies (sometimes patched) of
external libraries.  Those copies are currently maintained in SVN
(yes, you read this correctly).  The URL is
http://svn.python.org/projects/external/

Not only does this mandate an additional dependency to run a Windows
build (I don't think we use SVN anywhere else), but it actually makes
them unpleasantly slower, because SVN is crappy at making checkouts.

Is it planned to move that repo to git?

Regards

Antoine.