cute post evaluating HG

[tekHedd]

Patrick Mézard wrote:
> Marcin Kasperski a écrit :
>>> it's still not
>>> appearing to the Windozers largely due to the lack of GUI.  These
>>> days, we can't expect most [average] developers on win32 to be
>>> command-line savvy.
>>>   
>> I got windows laptop and started using it. Ugh. Cough. Brr. Spawning 
>> terminal, moving
>> to the correct directory, issuing the command, reviewing its results - 
>> takes so much effort,
>> that any gui is of incredible help. So, for instance, while using 
>> subversion, on Linux I stick
>> to svn commands, and on Windows I use TortoiseSVN only.
[...]
> Now, the real problem is Windows shell is a toy and even worse, hard to 
> use in a reliable way. Besides, many basic tricks in hg wiki rely on 

Hear hear! The problem is not that (all) windows developers are stupid,
but instead that the windows shell is so incredibly painful.

> shell scripts (hooks for instance) and are much harder to implement 
> under Windows. Which means you better have another language (python, 
> perl, whatever) to perform some tasks, which adds to your deployment 
> costs (package unavailability non-withstanding).

Well, why not embed a python interpreter in hg... oh. It's compiled into
the executables in the win32 distro, isn't it?

Once you get a real installed base of win32 clients, I think portable
hooks will begin to appear.

tom
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