Re: [matplotlib-devel] git-svn matplotlib mirror

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm...> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Friedrich Romstedt
> <fri...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to set up a git mirror for matplotlib, but I 1) have some minor
> > problems and 2) want to know what others think about this.
>
> Late last year, I did some work to convert the svn repository to git.
> The code to d the conversion is available at
> https://github.com/darrendale/mpl2git . The resulting git repo is
> available at https://github.com/darrendale/matplotlib . I have not
> pursued the project further because there did not seem to be enough
> interest in migrating from svn/sourceforge to git/github to justify
> investing more of my time in the project.
>
> > I'm a native git user and I don't know how to use svn properly.
>
> I read that as "uninterested in learning how to use svn", and such
> sentiment is probably a fact of life as many (most?) open source
> projects move to DVC. In my opinion, matplotlib is likely to draw more
> contributors if it lowers barriers to entry and uses a DVCS that is
> growing in popularity, like git/github.
>
> Darren
>
>
In discussions with Ryan May on the prospect of switching over to git, it
sounds like we have a "Bike Shed" problem where we (the main developers)
agree that we agree that a bike shed should be  built, but we can't agree on
the color to paint it...

I think the main source of the huge download size is the data that is coming
from the basemap toolkit.  I do not think that it would be a good thing to
have everyone and their mother needing to do a 'git clone' on their computer
and find they have to pull down 500+ MB of stuff to get matplotlib.  It is
because of this that a straight-forward migration from svn to matplotlib
won't be possible.

What have been the proposed solutions to dealing with basemap's data?

Ben Root