From: Jim B. <jb...@zy...> - 2009-09-16 18:08:45
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I am very much in favor of this early move. Mercurial is robust, so it's just a question of capturing this history. With Dirkjan's able help, I'm quite confident of this process. And it will also help the Python community as a whole. - Jim On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Frank Wierzbicki <fwi...@gm...>wrote: > The move for Python to hg.python.org is currently stalled on a > requirement to enforce newline styles in their repository. We > currently do not attempt to control line endings in the way that they > do. > > Given this, on IRC the other day Philip Jenvey suggested that we might > move to hg.python.org *before* Python makes the move. This would have > the advantage of testing out the python.org infrastructure on our > project, which has a much smaller history to deal with. And it gets > us onto a DVCS, which I believe is the future for open source projects > since it (IMO) lowers barriers to contribution. > > Dirkjan Ochtman has offered to help, and has suggested that we use the > new subrepo feature of hg, which will give us a reasonable > svn:externals replacement (as I understand it). > > So who is interested? I believe I am. Unfortunately there are some > bits of our branching history that cause some trouble, but again > Dirkjan has offered to take a look at the troubles (And if that > doesn't work, I may try to do some svn dump hacking). > > The soonest that I'd consider doing this is after 2.5.1 is released. > Given the above, it would likely take longer (with a test repo for a > while, etc) > > Thoughts? > > -Frank > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > _______________________________________________ > Jython-dev mailing list > Jyt...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jython-dev > -- Jim Baker jb...@zy... |