Re:Why Python chose Mercurial
by oomkiller on Thursday October 14, 2010 @02:06AM
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I think they mainly chose it because it's what the community wanted. Git is very popular with Rubyists, and Pythonistas like to be a bit different than Rubyists. Instead, they chose hg, which is essentially git, with different names for things. Hg is a perfect fit for Python, as thats about how different Python is from Ruby or vice-versa ;)
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They do mention: "We are pragmatic enough to not choose a tool simply because it is written in Python, but we do see the usefulness in promoting tools that do use it when it is reasonable to do so as it is in this case."
Re:Why Python chose Mercurial
by josephcooney on Thursday October 14, 2010 @04:04AM
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Or could it just be that mercurial is written in python?
Well I did read the article, so I know that was part of it, I just think how the community feels mattered the most.
Re:Why Python chose Mercurial
by VBprogrammer on Thursday October 14, 2010 @08:01AM
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I don't use Mercurial, but didn't they replace the last of the Python code quite recently?
You are misinformed. Mercurial is still very much written in Python with a small part in C.
Git was created for Linux kernel development. How in the world does Ruby have anything to do with anything?
Re:Why Python chose Mercurial
by JustinSeriously on Thursday October 14, 2010 @12:44PM
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I think the logic is this: Github is popular. Ruby is the most popular language on Github. Therefore Ruby and Git are connected.