help wanted for vc-hg.el

[Neal Becker]

This was posted on emacs.devel (gmane.emacs.devel):

Dan Nicolaescu wrote:

> 
> vc-hg.el has been checked in recently. Unfortunately Ivan Kanis, the
> vc-hg.el author does not have much time to maintain it.
> 
> I implemented some of the missing functionality, but there are some
> things that still need to be done. Here's a tentative list:
> 
> - thoroughly test and fix problems that are found
> 
> - write regexps for log-view to understand the "hg log" output
> 
> - implement vc-dired
> - implement vc-snapshot
>     I have never used the 2 above, so I don't know much about them, or
>     even if they make sense for Mercurial.
> 
> - Implement Stefan Monnier's advice:
>     vc-hg-registered and vc-hg-state
>     Both of those functions should be super extra careful to fail
>     gracefully in
>     unexpected circumstances.  The most important such case is when the
>     `hg'
>     executable is not available.  The reason this is important is that any
>     error there will prevent the user from even looking at the file :-(
>     Ideally, just like in vc-arch and vc-cvs, checking that the file is
>     under mercurial's control and extracting the current revision should
>     be done without even using `hg' (this way even if you don't have `hg'
>     installed, Emacs is able to tell you this file is under mercurial's
>     control).
> 
> Help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
>         --dan