On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 Dec 2010, at 10:33, Antonio Cuni wrote: > >> Alternatively, if you install mercurial you can then "import >> mercurial.commands" and use its public API from Python. Or as you said you >> can >> just execute hg log and parse the output: in this case you might be >> interested >> in the --template option, which allows you to format things exactly as you >> want, e.g.: > > <snip> > > I'd suggest parsing the command line output of Mercurial, as it's the > officially sanctioned stable API for Mercurial. The Python API, while > faster, provides no stability guarantees. That being said, the following > will create a repository instance and access the context for a particular > changeset: > >>>> from mercurial import hg, ui >>>> >>>> repo = hg.repository(ui.ui(), 'path/to/repo') >>>> ctx = repo['tip'] >>>> log = ctx.description() > > The typical accessors for a changeset context are defined at > <http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/file/7397a53219c9/mercurial/context.py#l97>. > > Please note that any use of the Python API means that the entire application > is covered by the GPL. >
How is it even technically possible? It does not link against mercurial and GPL specifically excludes anything about *running* your software. _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
