(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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