On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote: > kiorky wrote: >> >> Hi Lennart, >> >> If i read 'virtualenv-distribute 1.3.4.2 on pypi' >> I can do some googling or even do some Pypi searching for >> 'virtualenv-distribute'. >> >> Thus, the first link found may be [1]. >> >> On this link, the second sentence is: >> >> """ >> The fork was started by Philip Jenvey at >> http://bitbucket.org/pjenvey/virtualenv-distribute/ and this version by >> Florian >> Schulze lives at http://bitbucket.org/fschulze/virtualenv-distribute/ > > Add http://bitbucket.org/kiorky/virtualenv-distribute/ to the list and this, > ladies and gentlemen, is why distributed source control sucks. > > Why are there effectively 3 forks on virtualenv now, just to get it to use > distribute? Is it really so hard to work with Ian Bicking to be the real > virtualenv using distribute instead of setuptools, especially in the way of > the bdfl pronouncement? >
I think the word "fork" here, in DVCS principles, just means that you copy a repository to work with, and eventually ask for the main repo to merge the changes. Which is fine imho. Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
