Hi all I know I *should* be using a Source Control Management system, but at present I am not. I tried to set up Mercurial a couple of years ago, but I think I set it up wrongly, as I got myself confused and found it more of a hindrance than a help. Now I am ready to try again, but I want to avoid my earlier mistakes.
I understand the concept, and I understand the importance, so I do not need reminding of those. What I would like help with is the basic setup. I could subscribe to the Mercurial mailing list and ask there, but I am hoping for a kick-start here. Here is my setup. All my source code resides on an old Linux server, which I switch on in the morning and switch off at night, but otherwise hardly ever look at. It uses 'samba' to allow sharing with Windows, and 'nfs' to allow sharing with other Linux machines. I need to test my program on Windows and on Linux, so I run it from both at various times. On Windows I have a 'mapped drive' pointing to the source code. On Linux I use a third machine, running a recent Fedora, using nfs to mount a directory pointing to the source code. Obviously each machine has its own version of Python installed. I do my development on the Windows machine. I use TextPad, a simple text editor, which works fine for my purposes. It uses the mapped drive to point to the source code. So where should I install the SCM, and how should I set it up so that I can access the latest version from any machine? Any hints will be appreciated. Frank Millman -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
