(Almost) all extensions together in one place
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Wed Mar 30 21:24:53 CDT 2011
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 21:53 -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
> [also available as http://hg.gerg.ca/allextensions/raw-file/tip/README.txt]
>
> All Mercurial Extensions
> ========================
>
> This project is a meta-repository that gathers together all known
> Mercurial extensions that are not included with the latest version of
> Mercurial, as listed in the Mercurial wiki. It has two purposes:
>
> * make it easier to audit the universe of extensions for Mercurial
> developers proposing an API change: "if I make this change, how
> much pain will it cause for how many extension developers?"
>
> * give Mercurial developers a place to play around with subrepos
>
> This project includes the following:
>
> * scrape, a script to parse the Mercurial wiki and find third-party
> extensions and their repo URLs
> * gather, a script that processes the output of scrape and creates
> new subrepos as needed
> * a subrepo for every extension currently known
Very clever.
> The canonical repository URL for allextensions is:
>
> *to be determined* (selenic.com? bitbucket.org? other?)
>
> For now, you can get it from
>
> http://hg.gerg.ca/allextensions
Good enough for me.
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