BDFL decision of Python's DVCS

Eugene Wee crystalrecursion at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 18:35:25 BST 2009


Hi,

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> All of that said, maybe Python decided not to use bzr, precisely
> because it is written in the very language that they are working on.  A
> hellish day that would be if they broke Python enough that they
> wouldn't be able to interact with their VCS... Maybe the decision came
> down to "I have systems X and Y, but I really don't want to be
> depending on Python so much that if Python breaks, so does our VCS" and
> that would be why hg was picked.


hmm... but hg is also written in Python :)

Regards,
Eugene Wee
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