future of HgKit

Alpár Jüttner alpar at cs.elte.hu
Mon Oct 5 02:03:35 CDT 2009


> Why not? I do it all the time from many languages, including Java.
> Matt has repeatedly stated on this list he wants the shell interface
> to be as stable as possible. I have many tools which call mercurial.
> They are stable and rarely break when hg is upgraded. The shell
> interface is arguably more stable than the backend storage.

Hmmm... As far as I remember, the storage format has never changed since
0.9 (to be precise, there was one and only change but it was a backward
compatible extension), while the CLI backward compatibility has been
broken several times.

Regards,
Alpar

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