On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > Regarding having Mercurial installed, that is very easy, and after > you've gone (eg): > > hg clone https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css my-copy-of-cameron's-css > > (or wherever the public repository is published), you can of course > then walk away and work. You no longer need the public copy at all. > > With a DVCS the threshold is low and the advantages are high (hg > or git; I'm an hg person myself).
Yes, it's not hard to get Mercurial. And it's not hard to get git. But it is an extra barrier, and trying to tell people they need this-that-and-the-other just to get your software is a pain. Personally, I'm quite happy fetching from either git or hg, because I'm at least broadly familiar with both (more with git), but if it's something I'm *not* familiar with (cvs? Haven't used it in forever), less happy. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
