[python-committers] branches and merging

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 17:12, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> And does it look like a non-issue because you are familiar with the
> Windows environment or because your imagination can't conceive of why it
> would be a real problem? Does going ahead make development more
> difficult for the Windows platform? I'm not fully familiar with the
> issues, but if they were significant enough to persuade Brett that Hg
> shouldn't go ahead I have to believe they are potential show-stoppers.

It's perceived as not much of an issue, AFAICT, because people feel
that using good editors will save you most of the time, pre-push hooks
will prevent everyone from actually polluting the central repository,
and it would be easy to install pre-commit hooks locally to get an
early warning. ISTM that the remaining problem space is a high level
of automation that some Windows developers desire, that they got from
SVN, but that is quite small because there's a bunch of mitigating
factors. It's perceived as a regression, and as making Windows
developers second class because most of the issues won't come up on
other systems.

Cautiously formulating-ly,

Dirkjan