dmitrey wrote: > As for me, I would wait until DVCS became more popular than svn. Jump > often from one VSC to another isn't a good idea, moreover, it's not > clear for now which DVCS will suppress others and became standard (being > installed in many OS by default). I don't think one will become standard. Git will stay for sure, since it is used and developers by kernel hackers; it is used by at least two big open source projects: linux and xorg (as well as many freedesktop projects). bzr is pushed really hard by Canonical, and I don't think Canonical will be going away soon. Mercurial is used by Sun for all its open sourced projects. I don't see why this would be a problem.
On Linux, getting open source softwares is trivial, and windows has never been distributed with any VCS system :) Only mac os X has svn by default (if you install the dev tools at least). But as long as binary installers are available, I don't see that as a big problem either. Now, the points you raised (concerning the popularity) have direct consequences on the availability of third party tools, which certainly is a problem to consider (GUI, etc...). As far as bzr is concerned, I would say that's the core problem (Gui on windows, integration with trac). > > Also, I would prefer (for example my openopt) changes being available 24 > hours/day immediately after I have commit them; also, keeping them too > long only in my HDD makes data more vulnerable - computer viruses, often > electricity drops, other possible causes to lose data. Nothing prevents you from putting the changes on a backup server: for example, bzr supports the concept of sending any commited changed to a 'bound branch' automatically, to have a more svn-like workflow. I certainly agree that changing the VCS is a big change, and requires a lot of thinking, though. I am not suggesting to change for the next week. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
