[Python-Dev] Looking for VCS usage scenarios (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Nov 3 19:34:43 CET 2008

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On Nov 3, 2008, at 12:58 PM, C. Titus Brown wrote:

-> Sticking with a dvcs implemented in Python makes the best sense, -> especially when you consider the plugin architecture. When we -> selected a new tracker, we didn't make implementation in Python a -> requirement, but instead a high hurdle. Meaning, if a tracker wasn't -> written in Python it had to be way better than those written in Python.

I worry about the idea of hacking in any way, shape or form, on the version control system used to maintain the Python source code. I place VCSes at the compiler- or OS-level of the toolchain, because you have the option of fundamentally screwing up the entire project by playing with them. So from that perspective it's better to keep it out of Python to remove the temptation to hack :)

:) But actually more interesting is whether we want to add plugins that assist Python dev workflow. For example, let's say we wanted to
have a 'fixes' command that automatically updated the Roundup tracker
with the branch information. I'd personally much rather write 10
lines of Python to add such a plugin than any amount of C or Perl, or
whatever else. :)

-> As for dvcs, I think git would have to show overwhelming advantage -> over bzr or hg to be considered.

I personally have found git very, very powerful and good, albeit difficult to learn. It is guaranteed to scale (unless Python gets to be significantly bigger and more active than Linux, at any rate) and it has a large, very technically capable, and supported user community already. I think there are reasons why git should be at least strongly considered.

Powerful, scalable, active development and user community would
certainly apply to the Python-based dvcses.

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