On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Greg Von Kuster <greg@bx.psu.edu> wrote:
Hi Peter,
On Jun 16, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Peter Cock wrote:
Are you expecting tool authors to work primarily at the hg level?
You didn't answer that one ;)
Not necessarily, but hg is the basis for uploading and downloading tools. I'm not sure if it will be possible to completely eliminate the requirement of a tool developer using hg, but we're making every attempt to do so.
Good.
Why are you so averse to using hg?
Because git suits me better? ;) Seriously, I have no strong aversion to hg - what puts me off a little is the need to have one repo per tool or tool-suite, compared to my current setup where all by tools are in a branch from the main Galaxy repo. There would be a significant time and effort cost in switching, made worse by having multiple tools on the Tool Shed. I'm actually thinking of this (requiring hg knowledge) as a more general issue, namely a potential impediment to new Tool Shed contributors. Peter