[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

[Steve Holden]

Fred Drake wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> The two sets of repositories use different conversion tools and rules.
>> They have nothing in common (different changeset IDs, different
>> metadata, different branch/clone layout).
> 
> I'd love to see a more detailed description of this, including why
> someone new to Mercurial would choose one over the other.
> 
> This information really belongs in www.python.org/dev/ rather than
> only in the mailing list.
> 
+1

As does a recent essay by Eli Bendersky, IMO. I believe it could lower
the barriers for entry into the "non-committer" class of developer. This
should make it easier for people to adapt Python to their own purposes
whether or not they want to contribute to the open source code base, but
also encourage people to investigate the compiler's innards.

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/06/30/python-internals-adding-a-new-statement-to-python/

regards
 Steve
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