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Subject: Re: [9fans] nupas update
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On Tue, 18 May 2010 20:40:15 -0400
Jorden M <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:59 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Federico G. Benavento
> > <benavento@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> just a comment, the python port includes some hg bits because of my lazyness
> >> the thing is that hg isn't just python, it has some c modules that had
> >> to be built
> >> in in python, so python needs to be recompiled to support hg...
> >> so I went the easy way, python already comes with the hg c code.
> >
> >
> > wow. That's crazy of the hg guys but I guess I understand.
>
> If memory serves, it wasn't done willingly. There were performance
> problems that the C was used to alleviate.

It also doesn't require recompiling/relinking Python on the systems
Python and Mercurial are usually used on.  (They support dynamic
loading of shared libraries.)

Robert Ransom