> I'm very surprised that mercurial is not part of opensolaris 2008.05

Maybe not as surprising when you consider size/download time constraints, 
but you're right that it's useful, and must be installed separately.

> Not only is it not a part of opensolaris, it's not even in the package 
> database.

But that's not right.

SUNWmercurial has been available via pkg.opensolaris.org since the build 
86-based 2008.05 release.

> Can anyone recommend a third-party source to download mercurial/hg?  I rather 
> not compile from source! Thanks.

No, please use the one I referenced.

> # ls /usr/bin/hg
> /home/da73024/bin/i86pc/ls: cannot access /usr/bin/hg: No such file or 
> directory
> # which hg
> no hg in /usr/sbin /usr/bin
> # pkg refresh
> # pkg list -s |egrep -i 'hg|mercurial'

I bet a "pkg search -r hg" would get you the right results.

--Mark
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