Upstreaming Mercurial packaging for Sandstorm

[Sean Farley]

Ross Light <ross at zombiezen.com> writes:

> Hi Mercurial Devs,
>
> I recently packaged Mercurial
> <https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/61gh7gnns305cknp20v2ekvdex48g4d3rv6wghuzk6huzx5qmp7h>
> as a Sandstorm app.  Sandstorm is a platform for hosting web apps as
> containers.  It emphasizes making apps easy to use and install for
> end-users: you can use that link to create a new Mercurial server in
> seconds.  More about the project at https://sandstorm.io/
>
> My packaging was relatively straightforward and is basically just a
> directory that contains the nginx config, hgrc, and a handful of bash
> scripts to put things in the right place in the container.  You can find
> the source here <https://bitbucket.org/zombiezen/mercurial>.

Looks neat! Thanks!

> Would there be interest in me submitting this to the upstream contrib/
> directory?

I would think so. Anyone see possible downsides?