Lennart Regebro wrote: > > Yes. And can you point out what in my suggestion is not simple, and > what is magic, and what is not circumventable? > - Not simple: you need a plugin for each VCS. To be consistent, it needs to be included in distutils, so when the VCS format changes, it breaks - you can't update it easily because it is in the stdlib. And if the sources are not under a VCS, it breaks, again. - Magic: it depends on the VCS. So if the same sources is under a different VCS, it may be different. How do you handle ignored files ? Etc... I have experienced all those problems for almost any package I am distributing, be it big (numpy/scipy) or small (my owns).
Now, if on the contrary, you have a simple format, then you can always have your own tool to generate this format from the DVCS. Why should python be different from every other type of software ? cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
