pure-python mercurial

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 16:56 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:
> 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?

Again, it's pretty much there for Python nerds. They asked for it
occasionally and we had all the relevant code hiding in our archives.
We've purposefully made it hard to build it this way, as the performance
is, er.. not representative.

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