[Twisted-Python] Twisted Trial

[Stephen Waterbury]

Phil Christensen wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Matthieu Brucher wrote:
>> 2008/6/17 Andy Fundinger <Andy at newworldelectric.com>:
>>> It's not quite an answer to your immediate question, but I would suggest
>>> setting up Subversion (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/) to track your
>>> versions.  That way you can keep all your versions modified, partially
>>> modified, unmodified, etc. and pull back any old version as appropriate.
>>> This looks like a tutorial for the kind of setup you'd need for that:
>>>
>>> http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/2820--
>>
>> A smaller VCS without a server would be more efficient for private
>> testing and comparisons. So try bzr (my favorite), hg or git.
> 
> I'm becoming a pretty big Bazaar fan, but if you're going for 
> simplicity, a distributed VCS like Bazaar or git could be difficult for 
> someone who has had no exposure to source control.
> 
> Even with Subversion, although some will have no problem understanding 
> the concepts of updates versus commits, etc, I have definitely been 
> somewhat shocked at the amount of guidance needed by trainees of mine in 
> the past.
> 
> Running Subversion locally is probably a better bet when you're starting 
> out; it's a bit easier, it's probably used by a majority of open source 
> developers, and it transitions easily to a hosted scenario.
> 
> Then as you gain experience working with revisioned code in general, you 
> can investigate other options, like bzr-svn or "pure" bzr.

YMMV.  I found subversion to be cumbersome to configure and use,
whereas for me, hg was easy both for installation and use,
especially as a local repo.

Steve