Hg news tidbits

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

I've been meaning to do a semi-regular rollup of bits of news for a
while.  Please let me know if you'd like to see this continue.  I'm just
going to give the past week or so of news, since the ecosystem around
Mercurial is getting rather busy :-)

      * I had heard a few months ago that the One Laptop Per Child
        project was using Mercurial, but hadn't figured out a way to
        verify this.  Turns out it's true:
        http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC/SourceRepository
      * The ALSA project has recently switched to Mercurial (following
        the example of the Linux v4l and ACPI subtrees).  Look about
        halfway down this page for details:
        http://www.alsa-project.org/download.php
      * Zingo Andersen has written a Mercurial plugin for Eclipse, which
        is sure to make Java coders happy.  It's in a fairly early state
        of development, but he publishes the repo that contains the
        source, so if you're interested in trying it out and
        contributing, hack away!
        http://www.vectrace.com/mercurialeclipse/
      * There's been a lot of activity in the Mercurial tree recently:
              * Marco Barisione's "purge" extension has been merged
              * Again thanks to Marco, an upcoming Windows
                self-installing binary should automatically update your
                %PATH%
              * Manpreet Singh wrote a patch review plugin for vim 7.0,
                which is in contrib
              * Sebastien Pierre wrote a darcs importer, also in contrib
      * Off in other trees:
              * Alexander Schremmer has a new branchview update that
                seems a lot faster than before (if you haven't seen it,
                take a look: it's way cool):
                http://moin.pocoo.org:8080/hg-branchview-integration?cmd=branchview
              * Several people are working on tidying up the web
                interface, with a view to making it more maintainable,
                and easier to integrate into diverse web apps via WSGI,
                among other things

If you have other things you've been working on that you'd like to see
mentioned, let me know.  Assuming there's interest, I'll put out
semi-regular updates (i.e. whenever I have a page or two of news to
report).

Cheers,

	<b

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Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>