Re: [myhdl-list] Keep hierarchy in VHDL conversion

[Christopher F. <chr...@gm...>]

On 4/14/13 2:28 PM, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
> On 04/14/2013 06:02 PM, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
>
>> Oscar,
>>
>> if you have never used mercurial and need some help drop me a line. I
>> am very active in TortoiseHg development (and a bit on mercurial as
>> well) so I think I could help bring you up to speed if you need it
>
> Interesting.
>
> Perhaps I should ask a more general question: should we
> consider to move MyHDL development to github?
>
> This is not a technical question. Many Pythonistas probably
> have a slight preference for Python-based mercurial.
> Professionally, I use both and I am happy with either one.
>
> The point is that "everyone" seems to be at github. So
> perhaps this is good for visibility.
>
> It may also be good for development. I like the way
> Oscar presented his work: it shows commitment to
> maintain the feature, and everyone can try/follow
> it without requiring my assistance. Much better
> than getting patches/bundles out of the blue that
> I am supposed to review/check/integrate before others
> can (easily) do so.
>
> Of course, for this to work, all development should
> be on the same system.
>
> Jan
>

As Jan eluded, there are two features:

    1) Improved work-flow:
       a) pull requests (largest impact)
       b) simplified interfaces (click buttons on webpages)
       c) default public (mods not local on private machine)

    2) Visibility (popular social thing)

If we feel #2 holds a lot of weight then github is the answer. If
visibility is important but not the most important then I would
suggest we stay with hg and use bitbucket (like pypy, sphinx,
cherrpy, ...).

For me a move to git vs. hg would be disruptive.  Not because
of some huge technical short-coming but because all my work has
been with hg and bitbucket.  If we move to git and github my
work flow and existing projects will not be compatible with the
new work flow (i.e. git and github).

Other than not being as popular I don't know of any technical
limitations of bitbucket vs. github.

It will be interesting to here back from Oscar, why he chose
github over bitbucket being myhdl uses hg.

My vote is to stay with hg and utilize bitbucket but I am not
adamantly opposed to git and github.  I do think it is important
that we start using bitbucket or github and pull requests.

Regards,
Chris