From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: From: Jeff Sickel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <8E336901-36C6-4A87-B957-AC839E0E7D02@corpus-callosum.com> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:28:48 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9fans] Mercurial and Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6892df36-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mar 14, 2012, at 1:15 AM, Steven Stallion 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