LWN.net Logo

Python switches to Mercurial

Python switches to Mercurial
[Development] Posted Mar 30, 2009 16:02 UTC (Mon) by corbet

Guido van Rossum has announced that the Python project will be moving to the Mercurial distributed version control system. "It's hard to explain my reasons for choosing -- like most language decisions (especially the difficult ones) it's mostly a matter of gut feelings. One thing I know is that it's better to decide now than to spend another year discussing the pros and cons. All that could be said has been said, pretty much, and my mind is made up."

Full Story (comments: 9)

Copyright © 2009, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds