[SciPy-dev] Scipy workflow (and not tools).

[David Cournapeau]

Jonathan Guyer wrote:
>
> Nothing forces you to develop without version control. See the SVN  
> Book's discussion on "vendor branches" for one approach. We hack on  
> several other people's tools in our own repository and periodically  
> synch to their efforts or send them patches from ours. I am *not*  
> saying that DVCS is a bad idea. I don't think it is. In this instance,  
> it's clearly superior to the svn model, but please let's stop making  
> svn out to be worse than it is, because I guarantee that you're going  
> to be bitten by some variant of the same issues with bzr, git, or  
> whatever. Look at David Cournapeau's blog on why he's ditching bzr in  
> favor of git, after ditching svn in favor of bzr;

You got it wrong: I've never ditched svn, since I have never used it for
my own projects.

David