svn conversion + Windows

[Steve Borho]

Svn conversion is all the rage at the moment.

I've been recently attempting to pull up my Windows installer
environments to Python 2.7.1 (from 2.6.6) and am currently blocked by
the lack of pre-built Python bindings for subversion.  I've been
entertaining the idea of switching to subvertpy at this point just to
bite all the churn at once, however it seems that 'hg convert' will
not use the subvertpy bindings.  Is this true?  And if so, should this
be a deal blocker?  Are there repositories that hgsubversion cannot
convert but the convert extension can tackle?

I hear a lot of chatter that the SWIG bindings are mostly dead but
subvertpy is not yet mature, but we also seem to have a need for both
of them.  I have very little interest in trying to ship both of them..
this is a Mercurial installer not a subversion installer.  I'm
actually contemplating packaging both of them separately somehow.

Any guidance from those in the know?

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Steve Borho