This is truly excellent.

Now to get Python to work out of the box on Plan 9.

Dave

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>wrote:

> All,
>
> I'm happy to report that the official Mecurial port is complete and
> has been accepted upstream. Starting with version 2.2, Mercurial will
> support Plan 9 and friends out of the box.
>
> You can find more information about the port here:
>
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Plan9FromBellLabs
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FactotumExtension
>
> I've updated stallion/mercurial to version 2.2-rc for the time being.
> The official 2.2 release is scheduled for the first of May. As soon as
> the release is made, I'll update the package.
>
> Some (slightly) bad news:
>
> Due to the number of changes that needed to be made in order for the
> port to be accepted upstream, I decided to recreate the contrib
> package. If you have installed a previous revision of
> stallion/mercurial, please be sure to completely remove it before
> installing the new one. Installation is slightly manual since it
> requires removing incorrect paths that were installed by
> bichued/python, however the process is documented in the
> Plan9FromBellLabs page above and in
> sources/contrib/stallion/src/mercurial/README.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve
>
>