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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 20:47:34 CET 2008

2008/11/3 İsmail Dönmez <ismail at namtrac.org>:

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 20:45, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote: [...]

I don't see how git can be considered given poor windows support - compilation on OS/X can be a bear too.

I would say that strong support of all of Python's key platforms would be a requirement (sorry, I haven't had time to read the PEP yet to see if it already says this). That means Unix (specifically, Linux and OS/X, and probably a few other Unix variants) and Windows.

I use git on Linux/Mac/Windows day to day, see http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/ http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

I find the fact that msysgit is a separate project, rather than a part of core git, is a significant point. Personally, I have dabbled with git on Windows and it certainly doesn't feel as well-supported as Bazaar or Mercurial. It's certainly getting closer, but I don't think even the Git project themselves would say it's there yet (the Git homepage points to msysgit for binaries, and that page explicitly says that Windows is only "officially" supported under cygwin). (I could go on, but I won't - suffice it to say that git doesn't yet feel "native" on Windows).

Paul.

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