yet another dvcs shootout (this time python-devel)

[Paul Moore]

2008/11/5 Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl>:
> Neal Becker <ndbecker2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> In case anyone knowledgeable would like to participate, there is now a
> discussion of choosing a dvcs (hg,
>> bzr, git) for python-devel.
>
> Believe me, I'm watching it carefully.
>
> There are also some Mercurial people on python-dev, by the way. Antoine Pitrou,
> Alex Martelli, Paul Moore and Georg Brandl are all people who use hg.

I'm keeping an eye on the discussion. I'm trying to avoid getting
drawn into the big advocacy threads, though. I haven't got the energy
for jumping on all the misinformation.

At some point, I think someone should push really hard on the "Bazaar
is slow, Mercurial is fast" argument. The Bazaar advocates seem VERY
good at handwaving this one away, and I don't think we should let that
happen. OTOH, I don't want to look like the one person ranting on
about this, so I think a few more people popping up with performance
gripes would help.

FWIW, I see Bazaar and Mercurial as pretty close on features - at
least for the things I expect python-dev to actually use - so I think
the performance argument is likely to be significant.

Paul.