Mercurial Vs. Monotone & Darcs

[TK Soh]

On 7/11/07, Thomas Lauer <thomas.lauer at virgin.net> wrote:
> "TK Soh" <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mercurial support on Windows is hardly first class. Even with 0.9.4,
> > it still doesn't run 'out-of-the-box'. Hopefully something can be done
> > before the 6-9 months period runs out.
>
> Hm... I may be missing some 1st class elements that exist under other
> OSes, but for me installing Mercurial (0.9.3 as well as 0.9.4) on a
> couple of Win2k boxes was simplicity itself.
>
> I already had a recent ActiveState Python and the MS SDK. So I set a few
> environment variables (that's one area which could be made a bit
> clearer), ran setup and that was that. (In fact, it was all over so
> quickly that I was sure the install had misfired. But no, all was well.)
>
> So compared to a few other VC systems I've played with it was very much
> 'out-of-the-box'.

Being distributed, merging should be an integral part of Mercurial.
Out of the box, Mercurial simply won't merge on Win32, unless your
'merging' doesn't involve the same files. In any case, Lee Cantey's
plan to bundle simplemerge in his binary pacakges would help a great
deal.