[Numpy-discussion] Introduction to Scott, Jason, and (possibly) others from Enthought

[Charles R Harris]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Jarrod Millman <millman at berkeley.edu>wrote:

> 2010/5/25 Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za>:
> > Awesome! Since github now supports SVN interaction, and all the core
> > devs use Git, now might be a good time to move the entire numpy source
> > tree?  It will certainly make it easier to merge the refactor changes!
>
> I would love to move numpy to github as well.  Almost everything I
> work on is there now and I am really enjoying using git and the github
> infrastructure is really nice.  This is obviously a separate issue and
> one that shouldn't deflect the discussion on the proposed refactoring.
>  But given how many of the developers are using git-svn and that you
> can use an svn client with github, it might be worth having a quick
> discussion about this in the near future.  For instance, I wonder how
> many of the developer's prefer using git at this point.  Also it would
> be interesting to hear from any of the developer's who would be
> opposed to git.  A few year's ago this was a hot topic for discussion,
> but it may be that this isn't very controversial at this point.
>
>
I think the main problem has been windows compatibility. Git is best from
the command line whereas the windows command line is an afterthought.
Another box that needs a check-mark is the buildbot. If svn clients are
supported then it may be that neither of those are going to be a problem.
However, It needs user testing.

Chuck
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