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

[David Cournapeau]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

As I mentioned in a previous post, there is smartgit, which is free
for personal use, and is a graphical UI (does *not* depend on the
mingw port of git, uses the reimplementation of git jgit in java used
in google for android I believe).

gitextensions is just a GUI around the mingw tools, and as such is
less reliable.

github also supports smart http for people behind proxies (although I
don't know about the authentification issues if any). Trac and
buildbot could use a svn mirror as provided by github for the time
being, although there seems to be an issue with the numpy repo ATM
(maybe my fault:
http://support.github.com/discussions/repos/3155-svn-checkout-error-200-ok-error)

David