BDFL decision of Python's DVCS

[Karl Fogel]

"Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> writes:
> This is hard to do; Bazaar is also a GNU project, and yet GNU seems to
> not be really using it.  

Note that the GNU Emacs project has decided to move to Bazaar; the
actual switchover is planned for when Emacs next branches for release.

> 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.

Well, hg is written in Python too :-).