On 21-02-2009, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM, <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: >> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 01:12, Jeff Hall wrote: >>>> >>>> Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a >>>> different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to >>>> be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case. >>>> For the DVCS, I'd just write a little script that would (1) update (2) >>>> open the editor on the file (3) do the commit/push dance when the file >>>> was closed. So for me it would be as easy as editing the file locally. >>>> >>>> So for my work style, a DVCS would be the biggest win. >>>> >>>> --RDM >>> >>> That's funny because I would expect that for most people it's the exact >>> opposite... just create a gmail account... boom, done... I'm not >>> necessarily >>> advocating that but just saying that IMO, most people will find google >>> docs >>> to be the "fastest" and "easiest" solution. >> >> The ease of creating a gmail account has nothing to do with the point >> to which I was responding (context which is lost from your reply). >> That's setup. I was responding to a point talking about in-the-moment >> workflow. A browser and a GUI javascript program are slower than a unix >> command line based editor such as vim or emacs both to open up and to use. >> Thus for me, by using a script to automate the part that the OP suggested >> would slow the dvcs user down (the update/commit/push cycle), I make >> the dvcs in-the-moment workflow much faster _for me_ than Google Docs. >> >> As I said it's a matter of personal style. Some people _will_ find >> Google Docs easier and more productive than a dvcs. My point was that >> not all people will. > > That's a discussion that can never come to a decent conclusion. We > will never find a solution that works for *everyone*
Maybe not for everyone but maybe a DVCS could work for everythings. I mean, work for the code, for the doc, for the peps, for the website... And also the same tools for core devs and for occasional contributors. -- William Dodé - http://flibuste.net Informaticien Indépendant _______________________________________________ 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
