From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: base Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:33:46 +0900 Message-ID: <87fwy35n11.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20100822120642.GA1794@muc.de> <87bp8uzu9d.fsf@mithlond.arda> <871v9o7dmf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87wrrg5rzg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87r5ho5gyr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87hbij6hib.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874oejq4zn.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282711055 16637 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2010 04:37:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:37:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Frank Schmitt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 25 06:37:34 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oo7jx-0007iv-Nh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:37:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oo7jw-0002th-UG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:37:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50876 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oo7jq-0002tc-6v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:37:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oo7jo-0001QG-79 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.254.161]:49729) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oo7jn-0001Ps-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss70 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B923F4003; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:37:20 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.97.223]) by imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6E3F4002; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:37:20 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC363FA0249; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:37:20 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6F83F12049A; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:33:46 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <874oejq4zn.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129188 Archived-At: Frank Schmitt writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > > Juanma Barranquero writes: > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 14:32, Stephen J. Turnbull > > > wrote: > > > > > > > (except maybe Eli because of the Windows issues) > > > > > The "Windows issues" are quite real. > > > > Granted. However, they're real for *all* DVCSes. > I don't think this is fair. Mercurial, which seems to be one of the > two top DVCS at the moment, has great Windows support. Python's transition to Mercurial is blocked on Windows support, and only that. How do you claim that as "great" support? The proponent of the implementation PEP 385 was Dirkjan Ochtman, so you can't claim that somebody lacking the needed skills (or access to people with them, if he doesn't have them personally) was running the transition.