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diff --git a/DEVGUIDE.txt b/DEVGUIDE.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..df259473 --- /dev/null +++ b/DEVGUIDE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +============================ +Quick notes for contributors +============================ + +Distribute is using Mercurial. + +Grab the code at bitbucket:: + + + $ hg clone https://tarek@bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute distribute + +If you want to work in the 0.6 branch, you have to switch to it:: + + $ hg branch 0.6-maintenance + marked working directory as branch 0.6-maintenance + + $ hg branch + 0.6-maintenance + +If you make some changes, don't forget to: + +- backport it to the 0.7 branch +- add a note in CHANGES.txt + +And remember that 0.6 is only bug fixes, and the APIs should +be fully backward compatible with Setuptools. + + |