On Feb 10, 2012, at 12:43 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> On Thu Feb 9 21:07:08 EST 2012, [email protected] wrote:
>> A quick question for everyone, is there interest in getting a more
>> current version of hg working for Plan 9 & NIX? If so, given I've
>> spent way too much time in the past getting both working for other
>> platforms, I could devote a little time to get both prepped for future
>> work.
>>
>> Python 2.5.1 is stable, but it wouldn't hurt us to be a little closer
>> to the 2.7.1 release. Hg has made significant strides since 1.0.2.
>
> stallion/hg is what we're using. it's version 1.7.5. we're using it with
> bichued/python.
>
> as i see it, the slight staleness of the port is tertiary. the primary
> problem is that python modules tend to assume they're on linux,
> and the secondary problem is that the python port is not as complete
> as it could be.
>
> it would also be nice for a python port to not depend on
> openssl, bz2 or z.
You've got a few dependencies for mercurial:
bz2, zlib, & ssl
So w/o those included in the Python build, no mercurial.
Getting current will help making the transition to modules that support
the Plan 9 file systems and architecture a little more robust.
Mercurial's a good example as it's got a lot of logic in place to
deal with all sorts of odd filesystems already.
-jas
