is it possible to use Mercurial without C extensions (pure Python)?

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Dienstag 30 Dezember 2008 00:18:15 schrieb Matt Mackall:
> Everything that is currently a C extension was at one time pure Python.
> All that's needed is a little elbow grease to resurrect the old code and
> make its use optional.
>
> My only requirement is that such a fallback not be automatic. When we
> first introduced extensions, there were several occasions where the slow
> Python variants were quietly ruining benchmarks.

Couldn't Mercurial check if the C extensions are available, and when they 
aren't, prompt the user to compile them or to adjust a config setting for 
using the Python versions? 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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