future of HgKit

[Mike Meyer]

On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:58:33 +0200
Andrey Somov <py4fun at gmail.com> wrote:
> Main concerns for IDE:
> - stable and complete interface (parsing stdout is not very convenient)

There are a few changes to mercurial that would make this a lot
better, and - based previous conversations here - would be accepted,
if not actively welcomed, into the core.

Those are:

1) A tweak so that a style can have a footer. This wasn't working last
   time I checked, but that's been a while.
2) Make the --style option accept an absolute path to a style file,
   rather than the name of a style that came with mercurial (not
   required, but it makes things easier later). Same caveat.
3) Make all the commands of interest accept styles.

Then you can create an xml style, bundle that with your extension,
have the invocations of hg use it, and use standard java xml tools to
parse the output.

     <mike
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