Mercurial in pure Java

William Dode wilk at flibuste.net
Sat Oct 3 15:38:39 UTC 2009


On 02-10-2009, Andrey Somov wrote:

> Python has heapq module which implements "the priority queue algorithm." 
> Why to bother to implement it in Python ? Why not to take it from Java ?
> It is simple:
>
> - download and install Java
> - install library which implements the priority queue algorithm
> - take care that the Java version matches the one required by the library
> - write a small Java program for the interface
> - launch Java from Python and execute the program
> - parse the output taking care that another version of Java or the 
> library may change it
> - get the result and use in your Python program
>
> Is it the way to go ? (I hope you can see the symmetry with Python and 
> Mercurial)

I use postgresql from python, and i never thought about porting it to 
python. There is a pure python driver for this but i even don't use this 
one.

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