[Python-Dev] Mercurial? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Apr 5 19:50:07 CEST 2009

Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:

On 05/04/2009 11:06, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

In particular, the Stackless people have requested that they move along with what core Python does, so their code should also be converted. I'd be interested to hear if they want all of their stuff converted, or just the mainline/trunk of what is currently in trunk/branches/tags.

Richard Tew would be the person discuss the details with.

- integrate with the buildbot I've setup the buildbot infra for Mercurial (though not many people are interesting in it, so it's kind of languished). Using buildbot's hg support is easy. 0.7.10 is the first version which works with hg 1.1+, though, so we probably don't want to go with anything earlier.

Ok, that's a problem. We currently run 0.7.5 on the master, and have made custom changes that need to be forward-ported. IIUC, this will also mean that the waterfall default page is gone, which might surprise people.

I suppose all slaves also need to upgrade.

- come up with a strategy for /external (also relevant for the buildbot slaves) I'm not sure exactly what the purpose or mechanism for /external is. Sure, it's like a snapshot dir, probably used for to pull some stuff into other process? Seems to me like it might be interesting to, for example, convert to a simple config file + script that lets you specify a package (repository) + tag, which can then be easily pulled in. But it'd be nice to know where and how exactly this is used.

Take a look at the batch files in Tools/buildbot - they are the primary consumers. PCbuild/readme.txt also refers to it.

Regards, Martin

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