Hello,

Agree that Mercurial is far superior to Git.  I also believe that the elephant 
in the room (Microsoft) is likely to succeed in relegating Mercurial to niche 
status.

One of the concerns I've had with continuing to stay with Mercurial has to do 
with support in IDEs.

We use Eclipse.  I noticed the lack of mention of Eclipse in the latest few 
emails concerning support in IDEs.  The Mercurial plugin for Eclipse has a poor 
record of support that has caused our group minor headaches through the years.  
Git is provided by default in Eclipse.  CVS support is provided as part of the 
Eclipse ecosystem by clicking Install Software and using the standard Eclipse 
Update Site.  An SVN plugin is available under the Eclipse Marketplace menu.  
The Mercurial plugin was previously available at the Eclipse Marketplace, but 
it is no longer found there.  Mercurial seems to have disappeared from the 
Eclipse ecosystem.

The other two most important IDEs - Visual Studio and XCode - also do not 
support Mercurial out of the box.  I may be wrong, but I believe there is a 
plugin for VS - I'm not sure of its status or how much it is used.  I do not 
believe a plugin for XCode exists.

It's a slow drip drip drip for Mercurial.  The fat lady isn't singing yet, but 
she's warming up.  Sad.

Don Wills

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