On Apr 5, 8:50 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek- central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > Michele wrote: > > the thing I do not understand if why we are moving > > away from Subversion. > > Because it's still centralized. That means different developers cannot pursue > parallel branches on their own, those branches must be represented on the > server.
Yes, but Python managed to work this way for nearly two decades and I am not sure the change is really required. Notice that I did use a DVCS in the past (Darcs) and in principle I like DVCS better, but in practice there are too many of them nowadays, and I would wait for a few years to see if the situation stabilizes before changing the old route. But this point is moot, of course, since the BDFL has already spoken. I take the core developers are happy with the choice. The relevance for me is that at work we use Subversion, but now that Python uses mercurial I am sure there will be coworkers wanting to switch to Mercurial and I would like to understand what are the tradeoffs involved. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
