[Numpy-discussion] DVCS at PyCon  Christopher Barker
Chris.Barker@noaa.... Fri Apr 10 11:43:28 CDT 2009  David
Cournapeau wrote: >> we're really better off with a system with
>> good tool support on all platforms. > Why ? We are not
python, where many core developers work on windows.  As I
understand it there is a dearth of Python developers on Windows,
too... But anyway, we probably want MORE Windows folks
contributing, not   Another key is the "core developers" concept
-- I'm not a core developer  on any major OS project, but I do
contribute bits and pieces here and  there to quite a few (
numpy, scipy, MPL, wxPython, MacPython, ... ). I  think we want
to encourage folks to be able to do that - learning a new  VCS
to test and contribute a small patch is large barrier to entry.
> The git command line works well on windows (same as on other
systems), > I used it while testing things for numpy 1.3.0
(locally, though > because of the git-svn issue).  Somehow,
command-line anything is kind of painful on Window