[Python-Dev] devguide: More clarifications: use the term 'working copy' and mention 'hg update'.

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:29, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:17:51 +0100
> brett.cannon <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> -One should always work from a checkout of the CPython source code. While it may
>> +One should always work from a working copy of the CPython source code.
>> +While it may
>>  be tempting to work from the downloaded copy you already have installed on your
>
> The difference between "downloaded copy" and "working copy" isn't very
> clear. The important difference here is between "official stable
> version" and "latest development sources".

I'll clarify.

>
>> -To get a read-only checkout of CPython's source, you need to checkout the source
>> -code. To get a read-only checkout of
>> +To get a read-only checkout of CPython's source, you need a working copy the
>> +source code. To get a read-only checkout of
>
> Why talk about "checkout" at all? It's an SVN/CVS/RCS term, if I'm not
> mistaken (even though it may occasionally be used with hg, it's a
> synonym of "working copy" there).

Since it's a synonym I didn't worry about it. I honestly just thought
it flowed better.

-Brett

>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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