Brett Cannon wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 15:34, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >>>> Second, I think it would be good to explicitly mention the option of >>>> deferring this PEP. Based on previous discussion, it sounds like there >>>> are a fair number of people who think that there is a DVCS in Python's >>>> future, but not now (where "now" means over the next couple of years). >>> Sure, I can add a note somewhere that says if a clear winner doesn't >>> come about the PEP can be revisited to a later date. >>> >> I think the request is slightly different: consider that a potential >> outcome should be "svn for the next five years, then reconsider" - not >> because none of the DVCS is a clear winner, but because there is too >> much resistance to DVCSes in general, at the moment. > > I already put a note in that no DVCS might be chosen once the PEP is > finished. Whether it is because no DVCS is a clear improvement over > svn or people just don't like a DVCS seems like a minor thing to worry > about to spell out in the PEP.
I suspect the reactions will be more nuanced than that anyway - e.g. my current position is that while I like the idea of a DVCS in principle and agree there are definite gains to be had in switching to one, I don't think the contenders have had enough time to shake out their competing feature sets and relative performance. We don't seem to lose a lot by sticking with SVN at least until after 2.7/3.1 are out the door and then revisiting the DVCS question (this is particularly so given that the current plan is go for a fairly short turnaround on those two releases). As the zen says, now is better than never, but never is often better than *right* now :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
