On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 5:24:40 PM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On 8/27/14 3:50 AM, Frank Millman wrote: > > "Ian Kelly" wrote in message > >> Ugh. There seems to be no public repository, and the only source to be > >> found is from release-versioned tarballs, so there's apparently no > >> collaboration other than some forums for reporting bugs and requesting > >> features. All the work is done by one developer in his spare time, and > >> he is currently on hiatus since April. Meanwhile the most recent > >> release is February, so it's not like somebody could just pick it up > >> and start hacking and expect to merge. > >> That's only open-source under the most literal of definitions. > > This is quite a timely message for me. I am inching closer to releasing a > > version of my accounting software, and a lot of the above comments apply to > > me as well. At present I am the only developer, and my project is not hosted > > anywhere, so I have to decide how to make it available, and I am open to > > suggestions. > > I have had two attempts at running an hg repository locally, and I am afraid > > that I am not keeping it up to date. I do have a master copy, but I have > > made so many changes in my clone that a merge will not make any sense, so I > > will have to start afresh. I think that making it public will be the only > > way that I can force myself to update it regularly.
> You don't need a "local hg repo", you just need a working tree. I > recommend choosing either hg or git, and then using BitBucket or Github, > and being done with it. > > I could stick to hg (or git) but I have recently come across fossil, and it > > seems ideal for my needs. Has anyone used it? It seems to have everything it > > needs (a wiki and a ticketing system) for self-hosting, and I have my own > > domain that I have not activated yet, so maybe I should just use fossil and > > host it myself. Any comments? > Fossil is one of those technologies that is very attractive in and of > itself, but is so under-adopted that it will itself be a barrier to > collaboration. (Frankly, hg is getting to that category also.) Some plainspeak -- Nice! In modern society we are part users, part masters. It may be 99% user 1% master if one is super-intelligent versatile etc -- renaissance men. For us more ordinary folk it is more like 99.99% vs 0.01% Eg I dont know how to repair the car I drive, build the roads they run on, a frigging clue about the intenals of the utilities (electricity/water...) I consume etc. Heck this is even true of computers -- the SMPS? the Disk? Likewise versioning systems. We need to use them. We dont need to master all the details and possibilities. Git has won the battle -- maybe because of the mystique around the name 'Torvalds', maybe for sound technical reasons. It doesn't matter. If you have better things in your life than becoming a phd in versioning, I'd say flow with the tide and switch to git -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
