December 2005 Meeting

Thanks to RobertLeslie for arrangements.

Attendance

What we talked about:

PythonPackageCatalogs, including squeakmap (for Squeak, a Smalltalk environment) presentation by BrianRice, and PyPI/easy_install overview by MikeOrr, and discussion. See link for details.
Version control systems in Python:
- Mercurial
- Bazaar-NG
- codeville
- Compared with other distributed systems (Darcs) and central systems (Subversion).
- See http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Configuration_Management/Tools/ for an extensive directory of version control tools.
MikeOrr is learning SQLObject and TurboGears.
BrianDorsey is planning a joke website selling GUIDs (Global Unique Identification Numbers).
DanEverhart reminded us that we need a location for the January meeting.