When attempting to update my working copy of JDK 1.7, I attempted to
perform a "hg fpull" and got the error:
TypeError: transaction() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
A little research indicates a few things:
* The mercurial "forest" extension is no longer maintained.
* It is incompatible with Mercurial 1.6.
* Forest maintainers suggest you switch to subrepos.
* No updated version of the "forest" extension exists.
* OpenJDK documents contain no information about this issue and point
to outdated, broken extensions:
http://openjdk.java.net/guide/repositories.html
* This giant repository was built on an untested, unmaintained
experimental third-party extension.
* It appears to be impossible for developers to update their
repositories with the information given.
So how does one update a working repository? And what is being done
about the problem? This would appear to have major implications for the
viability of the OpenJDK project.
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Alan Eliasen
elia...@mindspring.com
http://futureboy.us/
