> Imagine the pain in the other direction, which was my experience :) I > actually did not believe at first that it was so bad, and thought I was > doing something wrong. At least, it certainly convinced me that SVN was > not easier than DVCS.
It would made me sick. :) > I am not familiar with sympy: you are not using trac at all ? Also, how We use googlecode: http://code.google.com/p/sympy/ it works nice for us. > did you convert the svn history ? using the mercurial extension. Kirill submitted some patches, so that also branches are converted and tags too. > I like the mercurial's way of showing branches and co; bzr does not have > anything like that out of the box (there are separate projects to show > sources; there is also launchpad of course, but since it is not open > source, I do not even consider it for numpy/scipy). > > On the other hand, the bzr community is more user-friendly: the tool is > easier to use I think, the graphical tools are more advanced, at least > from my experience. I never used bzr, so I cannot judge. > > We were basically only deciding between git and Mercurial, but we > > chose mercurial, because > > > > * we are python guys and Mercurial is in python+C, very nicely written > > and they accept patches (Kirill, one sympy developer, has posted > > several already, to implement features he was missing - he used to use > > darcs before) > > * Sage uses it > For some time, the big problem of bzr was speed. But bzr accomplished > quite a lot the last year: the first time I used mercurial, the speed > difference was obvious; it is not so true anymore (they 'feel' the same, > basically, but I have not used mercurial extensively, at least compared > to bzr). > > So I think it really boils down to the difficulty of the transition, the > availability of third party tools (and also the tool used by other > projects similar to numpy, as you mentionned). I know that bzr is used by Canonical, but I think socially, you should choose either mercurial or git. Those are imho the most widespread DVCS. As I said, Mercurial being Python+C was very important for us, so that we can easily fix bugs and implement new functionality in mercurial. Also the commands of mercurial are very similar to svn. Ondrej _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
