[mpir-devel] Re: Starting Out!

2009-03-27 Thread Bill Hart
I've now got TortoiseGit working on Windows 32. I'm sure 64 bit Windows support will eventually follow, e.g. when Windows 64 becomes the prevalent desktop of choice for vendors. It has been my attitude that until these Windows explorer plugins work properly, there isn't a whole lot of point us ch

[mpir-devel] Re: Starting Out!

2009-03-27 Thread Cactus
On Mar 27, 5:38 pm, Jason Martin wrote: > Brian: > > According to > > http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book > > it looks like the Mercurial book is being updated right now (last > update was 28 minutes ago), so that probably is why you hit an error > when trying to download it.  Perhaps it wi

[mpir-devel] Re: Starting Out!

2009-03-27 Thread Jason Martin
Brian: According to http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book it looks like the Mercurial book is being updated right now (last update was 28 minutes ago), so that probably is why you hit an error when trying to download it. Perhaps it will be available tomorrow? Dave and Bill: If you've alre

[mpir-devel] Re: Starting Out!

2009-03-27 Thread Bill Hart
Naturally I have no objection to someone setting up an HG clone of the svn repo and simply pushing patches to svn and rebasing, etc. So long as svn remains the central repo and we still support it, we have the opportunity to try a number of distributed systems until a final choice is made, which

[mpir-devel] Re: Starting Out!

2009-03-27 Thread Bill Hart
The main reasons for using git are: 1) It is easy to push and pull to svn (David has done that successfully today), so it makes for a nice transition (we can use svn and git at the same time). 2) The Perl project recently switched successfully to git and many open source projects have switched t

[mpir-devel] Re: Starting Out!

2009-03-27 Thread Dave
Hi Jason, I have only briefly looked at Mercurial, mainly because it wasn't as fast as git, and I was in a Mac/Linux development environment (and didn't require cross platform compatibility). Do you have any experience of using Mercurial and svn together? It would be interesting to see how git

[mpir-devel] Re: Starting Out!

2009-03-27 Thread Cactus
On Mar 27, 3:11 pm, Jason Martin wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Welcome and Thanks! > > If you're interested in using a distributed version control system, > could I convince you to use Mercurial instead of git?  The > functionality is similar between the two of them, but since Mercurial > is written in

[mpir-devel] Re: Starting Out!

2009-03-27 Thread Dave
Hi Brian! Yes, I must admit that support for Windows has been very poor. There do seem to be quite a few projects in development at the moment that could solve this problem. Bill is playing around with one now, so I'm sure that he will pass comment soon! I have setup a git repo on one of Bill'

[mpir-devel] Re: Starting Out!

2009-03-27 Thread Jason Martin
Hi Dave, Welcome and Thanks! If you're interested in using a distributed version control system, could I convince you to use Mercurial instead of git? The functionality is similar between the two of them, but since Mercurial is written in Python, it is quite a bit more portable. I think that T

[mpir-devel] Re: Starting Out!

2009-03-27 Thread Cactus
On Mar 27, 1:27 pm, Dave wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a postgrad student at Warwick, and I'm hoping to start > contributing to MPIR in the next weeks and months. > > My plan is to implement some basic arithmetic in MIPS, and then tidy > up the mpir_n functions, but to start I'm going to setup a git