Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results

[Matthieu Moy]

"Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
>> (already done in git 1.6), and there are developers that are working
>> quite steadily on the Windows ports.
>
> How will this work?  You can't have a true Windows system if its
> written in shell scripts so those would all have to be rewritten.

Err, windows is about the operating system. Shell-script is about the
language. You could say also that since hg is written in python, it
can't run on windows because it needs a python runtime.

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Matthieu