Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Note that not switching from svn on the backend, but still allowing > access with bzr, hg, and git is also an option. And there are two > subcategories of that: we provide mirrors of svn branches in the native > format, and we do nothing, allowing the dvcs's use their svn-bridges to > access the

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-25 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 21:11, Mark Hammond wrote: > > And it is even covered in the "minimal setup" section: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#hg > > I can't make the mercurial instructions work; I'm yet to investigate why > though. > > But my wider point was that there doesn't seem to

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Hammond
> And it is even covered in the "minimal setup" section: > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#hg I can't make the mercurial instructions work; I'm yet to investigate why though. But my wider point was that there doesn't seem to be a required level of functionality, or even a blanket statem

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le mercredi 25 février 2009 à 18:24 -0600, Benjamin Peterson a écrit : > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Mark Hammond > wrote: > > > > To the best of my knowledge, bzr's support for this is a few months away. I > > keep hearing rumours mercurial does support it and I'm just starting work on > >

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-25 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 16:13, wrote: > On Feb 25, 2009 6:46pm, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 15:35, Mark Hammond mhamm...@skippinet.com.au> > wrote: > > > > > There's an option missing in that survey: > > > > > > > > > > [ ] I see a need to switch to a DVCS at all. > >

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-25 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 16:16, Mark Hammond wrote: > [Brett writes] > > > I guess I didn't make it clear enough in the survey. This is meant to > gauge > > whether you think the DVCSs would be improvement over the status quo for > us, > > which happens to be svn. I have changed the options to make

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-25 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: > > To the best of my knowledge, bzr's support for this is a few months away.  I > keep hearing rumours mercurial does support it and I'm just starting work on > a mercurial based project, so I may be able to find some answers there - > does any

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Hammond
[Brett writes] > I guess I didn't make it clear enough in the survey. This is meant to gauge > whether you think the DVCSs would be improvement over the status quo for us, > which happens to be svn. I have changed the options to make it a comparison > against the status quo and not svn specific

[python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Hammond
I'm not sure if this list or python-dev is appropriate for the more general dvcs discussions - apologies if I got it wrong. There is one issue I'm yet to see addressed - Windows line endings. When the svn tree is checked out on windows, all text files have \r\n line endings. While many dev tools

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-25 Thread jnoller
On Feb 25, 2009 6:46pm, Brett Cannon wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 15:35, Mark Hammond mhamm...@skippinet.com.au> wrote: > There's an option missing in that survey: > > [ ] I see a need to switch to a DVCS at all. To be fair, the survey isn't asking about a switch, just how th

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-25 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 25, 2009, at 6:35 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: There's an option missing in that survey: [ ] I see a need to switch to a DVCS at all. To be fair, the survey isn't asking about a switch, just how they compare against svn. But I must admin th

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-25 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 15:35, Mark Hammond wrote: > > There's an option missing in that survey: > > > > [ ] I see a need to switch to a DVCS at all. > > To be fair, the survey isn't asking about a switch, just how they compare > against svn. > > But I must admin that seems a little strange; while

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2009-02-26 00:35, Mark Hammond wrote: >> There's an option missing in that survey: >> >> [ ] I don't see a need to switch to a DVCS at all. > > To be fair, the survey isn't asking about a switch, just how they compare > against svn. > > But I must admin that seems a little strange; while I jus

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Slightly corrected :-) On 2009-02-26 00:14, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > There's an option missing in that survey: > > [ ] I don't see a need to switch to a DVCS at all. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 26 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulti

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Hammond
> There's an option missing in that survey: > > [ ] I see a need to switch to a DVCS at all. To be fair, the survey isn't asking about a switch, just how they compare against svn. But I must admin that seems a little strange; while I just answered that I believe hg and bzr are better than svn (I

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2009-02-25 23:31, Brett Cannon wrote: > To see if people actually want to switch off of svn to a DVCS, I have put > together a survey for everyone to state for each DVCS if they think it is > better, worse, or equal to svn (and an option to not say anything if you > have no experience with the D

[python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-25 Thread Brett Cannon
To see if people actually want to switch off of svn to a DVCS, I have put together a survey for everyone to state for each DVCS if they think it is better, worse, or equal to svn (and an option to not say anything if you have no experience with the DVCS): http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?fo