Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

[Martin Schöön]

On 2011-04-30, Hans Georg Schaathun <hg at schaathun.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:21:58 -0700 (PDT), CM
>  <cmpython at gmail.com> wrote:
>:  While we're on the topic, when should a lone developer bother to start
>:  using
>:  a VCS?  At what point in the complexity of a project (say a hobby
>:  project, but
>:  a somewhat seriousish one, around ~5-9k LOC) is the added complexity
>:  of
>:  bringing a VCS into it worth it?
>
> You are asking the wrong question.  It depends relatively little on the
> number of lines, and much more on what you are likely to do with it.
>
You guys are very code focused, which is natural given where we are.

Having absorbed what I have seen here, looked a little at Mercurial,
read a little on the webs of Fossil and Bazaar I start to think there
is great merit in all this VCS stuff for other types of projects.

At work my projects contain very little coding (some Python, some
matlab/scilab perhaps) but a fair amount of CAD/CAE, written
reports, presentations (OpenOffice and that other Office),
spread sheets etc etc. A mixture of ascii-files and various
proprietary formats most of which is stored in binary form.
Some of the CAE-work generate pretty big files stored
in dynamically created subdirectories.

Our computer environment is mostly based on Vista and Suse Linux
and I still have a SUN Solaris machine in my office but probably
not for long.

Given this type of scenario, what VCS tools should I consider?
Still the Mercurial/Git/Bazaar/Fossil crowd? Any one of those
ruled out and then why?

/Martin