[Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

[Robert Kern]

Travis E. Oliphant wrote:

> I don't think it is time to move wholesale to something like Mercurial 
> or bzr.   I would prefer it if all of the Enthought-hosted projects 
> moved to the (new) system at once,  which is not going to happen in the 
> short term (but long term of course it's an open question).

I think that's irrelevant. There is absolutely no reason that we should force 
all of the Enthought-hosted projects to move in sync. We would have reason if we 
were being asked to host a different centralized VCS with a complicated server, 
but hosting Mercurial or bzr is nearly trivial. We already do it for me:

   http://www.enthought.com/~rkern/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi

The remaining thing we would have to support is the Trac integration. While not 
as trivial as simply hosting the repositories, it's not a very large commitment.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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