On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 13:28, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ralf Schmitt wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Ralf Schmitt schrieb: >>>> I think you really should not exclude any dvcs based on it's >>>> implementation language. >>>> I.e. requiring it being written in python for the sake of "eating your >>>> own dogfood" is just a very weak argument. git is certainly missing >>>> from your list. >>> And by then, why not include darcs, GNU arch and monotone? >>> >> >> please include all of them and choose the best one. that was my point. > > The PEP can at least mention darcs, arch, monotone, and then drop them > on the basis of not having a compelling reason to prefer them to the 3 > more popular choices. I don't see any need to go into the "other > choices" further than that - our needs aren't wildly divergent from that > of other open source projects, and while popularity is a poor final > criteria, it's a decent filter to narrow the scope of the initial > investigation. >
Tossed in two sentences. > For git, without a killer feature that is "oh my god, wow!" when > compared to the features offered by Mercurial and Bazaar, the > implementation language is enough to push it to the back of the list for > me. Sure, that's a pretty lousy criteria in the absolute sense, but > given that it is obvious that there are two perfectly acceptable options > written in the language we ourselves are implementing, then it should > take something pretty impressive to get us to look at a third choice. > Which is exactly how I feel. > That would leave the PEP to focus on the Mercurial/Bazaar comparison (as > Brett originally intended) and I'm sure even that limited comparison is > going to give the infrastructure committee (and any other willing > assistants from python-dev) plenty of work to do). > I must be insane. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
