Michael Droettboom wrote: > Darren Dale wrote: > >> Having worked with bzr and launchpad for a few months now, I wonder if >> we might consider such an approach in the future. I know there has >> been some experimentation with a git repository, is git supported on >> windows now? >> > I'm not sold that bzr/hg/git makes things simpler for this development > model. My thought is that matplotlib.sourceforge.net is a centralized website making centralized, official releases and other centralized facilities. Thus, it seems to me that a centralized, official version control branch is an entirely reasonable thing to have. svn provides a least-common-denominator for this job, and I don't see the reasons to shift to bzr/hg/git as sufficiently strong to merit such a shift. In particular, the svn model is pretty darn simple, and therefore easy to interface with (whether you're a human or a computer program).
Of course, part of why I think this way is that git seems to be working pretty well for inter-operation with the official svn repository. My experimental repository, described at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/installing_faq.html#install-from-git , is nicely allowing me to browse history locally, do git bisect, maintain my own branches, commit back to the svn repository when desired, and so on. I think there *may* be some impedance mis-matching if we tried to really map git branches on svnmerge branches, but right now that hasn't been an issue I've pursued. As far as git on Windows: I think there's some kind of msys git and also the cygwin approach. Not using windows much, though, I'm not sure. I did hear that Microsoft just started using github for ironruby, so presumably something works for them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
