Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

[rusi]

On May 2, 8:22 am, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> rusi <rustompm... at gmail.com> writes:
> > You may want to look at rcs if you are in the space where you want:
> > -- something better than tarballs
> > -- no pretensions beyond single-user, single-machine, (almost)single-
> > file usage (ie small scale)
> > -- something that integrates nicely with emacs
>
> I might have agreed ten years ago; compared to CVS or Subversion, RCS is
> simpler to use and set up and had lower workflow overhead.
>
> But today, Bazaar or Mercurial fill that role just as well: quick simple
> set up, good tool support (yes, even in Emacs using VC mode), and easy
> to use for easy things.
>
> I really don't see any benefit to using RCS for even a lone hacker
> tracking files; Bazaar or Mercurial fill that role just as well, and
> continue to work well as your needs grow.

In a word: single files.
If you have a directory with a number of short unrelated scripts --
python, shell etc --
the philosophy: vcs-manages-projects-not-files is a nuisance not a
help.

And which is why things like zit http://git.oblomov.eu/zit have
arisen: the need to go back from bzr/git/hg to (something like) rcs