Hi, I'll try answer even tough I have not done any programming on
hgkit for quite awhile.
First of all, no, it can't just convert the bytecode for two reasons.

1. There are some C extensions bundled into mercurial (and for some
reasons, they seem to create more and more of these because "it is
faster??"
2. That would create a licence conflict, my goal with HgKit was to
make it licence compatible with other applications, I personally
dislike GPL, any version and prefer EPL, LGPL or GPL with a linking
exception. Plain GPL for a library (as hgkit was intended to be) is
not a good idea.

The status of it, for a couple of months ago was that it could extract
versions of files and read the changelog (no commit, no update, no
pull/push, nothing really).

As a note the immediate goal were to support "hg status" in a java-
fast fashion, not having to launch a python interpreter for every
call, this proved
to be harder than I imagined it would be, mainly because if the .hg/
dirstate file is not up-to-date it has to be derived by looking into
the repository.

Would you like to contribute?

> Nov 7, 12:46 am, mbana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the current status of the port? Can you not just compile
> Mercurial into java bytcode?
>
> On Sep 13, 8:08 pm, StefanC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm glad to see someone else interested in creating a java api, and I
> > I've closed the assembla space for hgkit.
> > I'm looking forward to see what Mirko will achieve
>
> > > On Sep 13, 9:11 pm, Mirko Friedenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello,
>
> > > after having problems pushing to Assembla, I asked StephanC wether I
> > > could move HgKit to another site:
>
> > >http://hgkit.berlios.de/
>
> > > I added some tests and introduced Maven to the project.
>
> > > Best Regards
> > > Mirko
>
>
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