[Python-Dev] SVN <-> HG workflow to split Python Library by Module (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Jul 3 12:53:07 CEST 2010

Brett Cannon writes:

Mercurial has subrepo support, but that doesn't justify the need to have every module in its own repository so they can be checked out individually.

The point of submodules a la git is subtly different. It is that you can mix and match known versions of the modules. So, eg, in order to work on recent urllib, maybe you need a recent but stable email but you don't want any of the work being done on removing the GIL because it's somewhat unstable.

Of course it doesn't guarantee that your choice will actually work. The point is to make it (a) convenient to explore and (b) easy to exactly reproduce a successful configuration.

More or less David C's reply but with a different slant.

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