On 07/13/2011 08:54 AM, Andrew Berg wrote: > I know this isn't specific to Python, but it is somewhat on topic. Way > back when I had a simple project, SourceForge was by far the most > prominent place to host (and it still is, though to a lesser extent > now). SourceForge is still an option for me, but I know there are many > other hosts out there. The problem is I don't which one what the pros > and cons of each are. Wikipedia has some information, but it's generally > objective. This is useful, but it's not enough to narrow my choices down > to one or two. What can you guys recommend? > > BTW, I'll likely be sticking with Mercurial for revision control. > TortoiseHg is a wonderful tool set and I managed to get MercurialEclipse > working well.
GitHub is massively popular, and a great service. It's based on git (not mercurial), and is centred around the source repository, and has bug tracking, wiki, downloads, everything you'll need. What makes GitHub special (and popular) is the social aspect, allowing you to follow people, with great management of forks — real distributed (git is a distributed VCS after all) collaboration. One of GitHub's great features is, in a way, the huge community — kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Bitbucket, which Mr Rachel mentioned, is essentially a not-quite-as-good clone of GitHub, just using Mercurial. Don't get me wrong, it's a good product, and may be exactly what you want, but it is a clone, and it doesn't have the community GitHub has. Google Code is more SourceForge-style in that it focuses more on having the landing page linking downloads, not focusing so much on the code repository. It supports Mercurial repositories, as far as I know. I don't have much experience with it. All the standard features. There are a load of older sites, SourceForge, Savannah, Gna!, etc etc etc, but they don't support VCS other than CVS/Svn for the most part. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
