On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:39 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > I agree with Stefan that the warning message wording is less > than ideal. You'd normally call such blanket statements FUD, > esp. since there are plenty external hosting services which > are reliable and safe to use.
No, it's not FUD. Every external dependency adds another thing that can fail. I was just arguing this with one of my younger brothers this evening; he had some stuff stored in Google Docs, and he couldn't access it because of some outage. With a local git/hg repository, he would have had all his data right there, and even losing access to a central hub server just means you can't pull/push. Using someone else's server makes you depend on that server and everything in between. Obviously that's often a cost worth paying (hey, I'm posting this from Gmail, so I completely lose access to all these emails if it's inaccessible), but it's a legitimate concern, not FUD. (That doesn't stop the wording from being "less than ideal", though.) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com