On Sun, May 01 2011, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: > Am 01.05.2011 02:47, schrieb Shawn Milochik: >> Look at the big two sites for open-source repositories -- github and >> bitbucket. One's git, the other Mercurial. I don't think you can go >> wrong picking either one. > > Can any of those be used from Python as a library, i.e. something like > import Hg > r = Hg.open(path) > > When I had a look at Mercurial, which is implemented in Python, it was > implemented in a way that I could not do that. It was implemented as > rather monolithic program which could be used from os.system(...) > only. > > With a good API, I could easily have integrated it into my development > flow. I have a codebase which is shared between different projects and > there are many small changes on many different PCs. In theory a > distributed VCS is good at supporting that, but in practice I went > back to my lightweight synchronization scripts and file storage > again. With the API, I could have best of both worlds.
You should take a look at Bazaar. I found it fairly easy to use bzrlib from my own Python scripts. http://people.canonical.com/~mwh/bzrlibapi/ Jason -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
