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

[Charles R Harris]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Jarrod Millman <millman at berkeley.edu>wrote:
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>> 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.
>
>
A newish git windows client I hadn't heard of before is
gitextensions<http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/>
.

Chuck
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