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Subject: Re: [9front] removing python
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> I probably missed the memo but what’s the back story behind removing
> Python and migrating away from hg?
> 
> I’m a newcomer so I don’t yet know what’s problematic about using hg
> or Python on Plan9.

9front ships an ancient version of python purely to support hg.  It's
big and it's slow.  A pile of non-plan9 code that can now be done
without.

I don't know that there was any real desire to move away from hg as
the repo format, per se, but Ori wrote git9, not hg9.