Mercurial on AppEngine

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:13 PM, jmuk <jun.mukai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think definitely some guys already tried similar things, but I cannot find
> them now, so...
> I am pleased to announce that I "ported" Mercurial into Google AppEngine.
> http://hg-repos.appspot.com/

It looks interesting. Thanks for posting it.

> caution: Google AppEngine has many restrictions onto the applications like
> bandwidth, cpu time, data storage size or so on.
> Because of those restrictions, huge size of repository (such like hg itself)
> is not suitable to AppEngine.  You cannot push/pull 6000 changes at once :(
>
Can you explain what the problem is?

> caution2:  This must have bugs and lacks some functionalities.  For example,
> I didn't implement branches at all.  If you find bugs and loss of functions,
> please let me know.

I think a solution that would be accepted upstream would be to add a python
version of each C module. I see you already did part of that.

regards,

Benoit