On Sun, 2016-11-27 at 12:39 +0100, rupert THURNER wrote: Absolutely no reason to apologise for contributing.
> sorry for posting here, i usually just lurk on this list because i am > interested in build tools. i doubt that mercurial will die out - > their > mailing list seems more busy than ever. history rewrite can be done > with > mercurial nowadays with extensions, and will come even more, just > note > facebooks "hg absorb" extension. a nice write up about future plans > from > the mozilla dev list: > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.version-control/nh4fITF > lEMk/discussion In a sense introducing history rewriting is undermining the whole point of Mercurial in a world dominated by Git. The really important point in the email, at least for me, is that all that hoo-ha a couple of years ago that Mercurial would remain a Python 2 application as it was simply to hard to switch from ASCII string to Unicode strings has gone away and Mercurial will work on Python 3. Of course if a Rust version really does come out, it may sweep away the Python version! Interesting that groups within Google, Facebook, Mozilla, and Unity are Mercurial hold-outs in the tide of Git, and even fighting back with movers from Git to Mercurial. The write up makes it sound a bit like Google, Facebook, Mozilla, and Unity are single entities where in fact that a many hundreds of groups all acting independently within the organizations. That Mercurial will run on Python 3 re-energises my willingness to do things with Mercurial. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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