[PATCH 1 of 3 RFC] mercurial: add python re2 bindings

[Siddharth Agarwal]

On 10/13/2014 01:49 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 14:18 -0700, Siddharth Agarwal wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Siddharth Agarwal <sid0 at fb.com>
>> # Date 1409591324 25200
>> #      Mon Sep 01 10:08:44 2014 -0700
>> # Node ID f3b022e755dd7cf54e1ded55f0217bb1415348e2
>> # Parent  a98f6def97bc4b1bc74e37ca207445639e60b1a5
>> mercurial: add python re2 bindings
>>
>> These bindings will enable packagers to build Mercurial with re2 support.

Following up on this.

> As mentioned on IRC, I think the right next step here is to try to get
> this package properly hosted on PyPI

This is done: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fb-re2

> and then mention it as
> recommendation in our package config and docs.

I'm not exactly sure how to do this -- the extras_require stuff you
mentioned seems to be setuptools only. The 'requires' that distutils
supports doesn't appear to be PyPI aware. Did you have any other
approaches in mind?