Re: [9fans] Mercurial and Plan 9

[Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>]

On Mar 14, 2012, at 1:15 AM, Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As for the current status, I'm working on a port for the latest stable
> (2.1.1 at the time of this writing). This should be complete soon -
> there are a few rough edges I want to polish first, particularly with
> documentation. This port should be a bit more complete than the last;
> I am aiming to have this become part of the official Mercurial
> distribution going forward.

That's great news.


> Jeff,
>
> I believe the biggest sore spot is the lack of a modern Python port.
> Ideally we could have a more complete port that wouldn't require APE,
> but that may be approaching the point of diminishing returns.

Do you see this as a potential GSoC effort?  The sans-ape version,
build based off CPython 2.7 or 3.x?  There are more dependencies
than just Python, but if we did have this updated then there would be
more opportunity for people to experiment with a Plan 9 system.

-jas