[Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x

[Georg Brandl]

Am 28.10.2010 06:13, schrieb Daniel Stutzbach:
> 2010/10/27 Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com
> <mailto:kristjan at ccpgames.com>>
> 
>     Firstly, the ease of integrating changes.  It would be possible to port
>     those bugfixes that release-27 gets, and also backport selected things from
>     py3k using the tools already in place such as svnmerge.
> 
> 
> py3k will soon be moving to Mercurial, so svnmerge would not be helpful for much
> longer.  On the plus side, since Mercurial is a Distributed Version Control
> System, if you setup an unofficial continuation of Python 2 on the host of your
> choice, it will be easy for you to pull patches from py3k.

I believe we'll eventually have the ability to create user repos as well, so
that Kristjan can simply put his branch into one of these and still have it
on hg.python.org.

Georg

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