Brief article on benchmarks of Python repository with leading DVCSen

[Daniel Watkins]

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 02:27 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Nicholas Allen writes:
> 
>  > This is exactly why I think a global cache of downloaded revisions makes 
>  > sense.

> Anyway, AFAICS that's just a shared repository.

Well, it doesn't dictate your directory structure, it's always stored in
the same place, and bzr looks only there for it.

> Footnotes: 
> [1]  In fact some of the more conservative folks wanted "nothing that
> isn't in Debian stable", in which case Bazaar is just SOL.

Things should be slightly better on that front as of Saturday.  However,
as Python 2.6 won't hit Debian stable until squeeze (lenny+1), I find
this a little hard to swallow...


Dan