Re: [OT] Comparing VCS tools (was ""Development tools and practices for Pythonistas")

2011-04-29 Thread Daniel Kluev
We were looking for some simple integrated SCM, issue tracker and wiki in our university for software design and software testing courses, and fossil seems to be perfect match, thanks for sharing. -- With best regards, Daniel Kluev -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Comparing VCS tools (was ""Development tools and practices for Pythonistas")

2011-04-29 Thread Kevin Walzer
Fossil is another SCM to consider: http://www.fossil-scm.org/ It's written by the author of SQLite, D. Richard Hipp. It's not as well-known as some of the other DCVS's, but the Tcl/Tk language projects have moved their core development to it (http://core.tcl.tk). This is relevant to Python bec

Re: [OT] Comparing VCS tools

2011-04-27 Thread Tim Chase
On 04/26/2011 09:45 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Tim Chase writes: Bazaar (bzr) Cons: - was slow, though I understand they've worked on improving this Right, that's not a count against Bazaar for at least the last several versions (since 2009 at least). Bazaar is easily fast enough for

Re: [OT] Comparing VCS tools

2011-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Tim Chase writes: > > Mercurial (hg) > > == […] > > Cons: > > - no biggies that I've found > > - (Anecdotal) Merge algorithm sometimes fails catastrophically. I'm going to retract this one point. Merging is not as clear as in Bazaar, but not enough to count agai

Re: [OT] Comparing VCS tools

2011-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
Tim Chase writes: > Bazaar (bzr) > > launchpad.net popular for hosting > Pros: > - some Ubuntu interactions (such as launchpad) easier > - a rigorous focus on correctness > - written in Python (with a small optional bit of C) > - easy-to-use interface (CVS-ish) > - good cross-platfor

Re: [OT] Comparing VCS tools (was ""Development tools and practices for Pythonistas")

2011-04-26 Thread Tim Chase
On 04/26/2011 01:42 PM, Algis Kabaila wrote: Thomas, have you tried bzr (Bazaar) and if so do you consider hg (Mercurial) better? And why is it better? (bzr is widely used in ubuntu, which is my favourite distro at present). Each of the main 3 (bzr, hg, git) have advantages and disadvantage