future of HgKit

[Tom Widmer]

Andrey Somov wrote:
>>> - it is unclear whether Jython will ever be able to run Mercurial
>> well, it not too far from running.
>> i did play with it for some time, and found a
>> couple of bugs in jython.
>> fixing that and changing mercurial to not use
>> buffer() [literally a ~10 lines patch] got me
>> to commit, push, pull, checkout & co.
>>
>> jython still misses a bz2 module to work
>> with bundles
> 
> Why everybody says it is easy and nobody could make it work ?

Well, it's not necessarily worth it, since it will be GPL and thus not 
distributable with Eclipse.

Tom