Evolve with hg 2.8.2
Faheem Mitha
faheem at faheem.info
Tue Nov 11 02:50:00 UTC 2014
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Sebastian Unger wrote:
> Hi There,
> First of all: I have sent this before, but got no response, confirmation
> or other indication that my email had been received and I cannot see it
> in the archives. So I'm sending it again, now that I'm subscribed, in
> the believe that my previous email may have been dropped (maybe because
> I wasn't subscribed). If that was in fact not the case, then please
> accept my apologies.
> I'm a reasonably experienced HG + MQ user and have been keen to give
> Evolve a try. I'm also managing the 40 odd development desktops in my
> team. We are currently running Ubuntu 14.04 and will probably stick with
> that for a little while. This currently ships with mercurial version
> 2.8.2. If I follow the instructions for installing evolve, I get "Your
> Mercurial is too old for this version of Evolve".
> I have noticed that there is a branch in the evolve repo called
> mercurial-2.7 and if I update the extension to that branch, I do not get
> any immediate error messages.
> Here are my questions:
> 1. Is that branch up-to-date, i.e. does it have the same functionality
> as stable just for an older version of mercurial?
> 2. If so, are you going to keep it up-to-date for at least some time
> until later versions of mercurial are in more widespread use by
> distro's?
> 3. If not (to either one), what is the currently most stable and recommended combination of mercurial + evolve and how stable is it (compared to
> 2.8.2 without evolve)?
> 4. If I start using evolve and I find bugs/suggestions etc, where
> should I direct them?
> 5. What is the state of tortoisehg, if you know? The version shipped
> with Ubuntu 14.04 is 2.10. Does that support the evolve extension?
> And in general: From its documentation (having worked very intensively
> with MQ for 2 years or so) evolve looks like a dream come true! I really
> really would like to use it. ;-)
Hi Sebastian,
I haven't seen your mail, and I'm subscribed, so I think this is your
first message to the list.
I general I would recommend staying with the most recent version of
mercurial. In general it is not difficult to backport Mercurial Debian
packages from more recent versions of Debian/Mercurial. Similar comments
apply to tortoisehg.
A local compile is also an option, of course.
I don't think evolve is trying to stay backward compatible with earlier
versions of mercurial. I think it is too difficult.
Regards, Faheem
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