[PATCH 0 of 1] Perfarce extension

Steve Borho steve at borho.org
Tue Feb 16 10:00:12 CST 2010


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Frank Kingswood
<frank at kingswood-consulting.co.uk> wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is this queued for 1.5? It would be great if it could go in before  the
>>>> feature freeze in a couple of days.
>>
>> Time for me to chime in, I guess.
>>
>> As a long-time Perforce unenthusiast, I'm glad to see people working on
>> this sort of thing. However. including stuff in the tree is effectively
>> a promise to support it, so we've got to think pretty seriously about it
>> when it's non-trivial.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> On balance, I think the answer is not a definite "no", but is at least a
>> "too soon".
>
> Okay, I'll be happy to resubmit for the 1.6 timeframe.
>
> In the meanwhile we can look at any communality in these extensions.

The 1.0 release of TortoiseHg will include GUI support for the
perfarce extension, and it is already starting to attract some users.
I expect it will have many users by the 1.6 time frame.

--
Steve Borho


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