[python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Sat Feb 28 11:18:54 CET 2009


Why not add a requirement to the PEP such that if a DVCS is chosen
then a read-only SVN mirror or gateway should be maintained? Would
that be a reasonable compromise?

I have more or less the same opinion as Guido regarding svn merge. It
sucks. We bump up against problems with svn merge tracking on a
regular basis at work. We'd have switched to a DVCS by now if it
wasn't for tool support (trac mostly) and the fact that we use a lot
of svn:externals in our repository.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Btw, one of my concerns is that a move away from Svn breaks the process for
> people who pull sources from Svn to build their own Pythons. I know a few
> teams that do that, and switching to another system isn't just an apt-get
> away for them. Do we have enough log info to be able to determine how common
> it is that people pull down source kits using Svn?
>
> </F>
>
> On Feb 28, 2009 1:11 AM, <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The survey isn't biased. You have a value "the same /worse than the status
> quo" - wherein the status quo is subversion. If you hate DVCes, you mark it
> as "same/worse than the status quo" and we move on.
>
> No one is suggesting we accept *less* functionality than subversion: in fact
> we're looking at these for *more* functionality.
>
> On Feb 27, 2009 7:04pm, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote: > > No
> need for a long answe...
>
>> On Feb 27, 2009 9:24 PM, "Brett Cannon" brett at python.org> wrote: > > I had
>> a long reply all writt...
>
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