On Mercurial API

TK Soh teekaysoh at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 01:09:30 CDT 2007


On 7/31/07, Nathan Fiedler <nathanfiedler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, if API stabilization and documentation is not a part of
> the 1.0 release, I would be very disappointed. Mercurial will live or
> die by the tooling support. It seems that most everyone finds that the
> only viable way to interact with Mercurial is via the command line.
> Even if Python is the best interface available for Hg, the fact that
> the code keeps changing is a significant drawback.

I must agree. The lack of an 'official' API in Mercurial is becoming a
real problem, especially for  development  of supporting/complementing
tools.


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