pure-python mercurial

[Paul Moore]

2009/3/5 TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Weijun Wang <Weijun.Wang at sun.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the tip, but looks like the --pure option is meant for this
>>> too. I will give it a try.
>>
>> I find out that changing the "PURE=" at the top of Makefile to
>> "PURE=--pure" also works.
>
> I just installed using --pure, and it seemed to work fine. I also
> don't feel any significant slow down when using TortoiseHg on it
> (running the regular 'day-to-day' functions) so far. Granted,
> TortoiseHg is not a fastest kind of GUI itself ;-)
>
> It's going take more time to get the real feel on this, but I can live
> with it so far.
>
> Thanks for a good work.

This may be a silly question, but what is the purpose of this? I
assume there's no intention that the "official" builds of Mercurial
and TortoiseHg are ever going to be built as --pure?

Paul.