I hate Hg extensions

[Dave Brosius]

Actually i've installed a bunch of mercurial extensions and they all 
were drop-dead simple to install. Of course i'm talking about true 
mercurial extensions, not 3rd party products that use mercurial.

dave

On 07/24/2011 02:21 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On 07/24/2011 07:27 PM, Na'Tosha Bard wrote:
>> It's actually more like telling the chef who made the main course 
>> that the
>> souffle is bad.  This should be directed directly to the Tortoise HG
>> developers through their means of communication, not to the main 
>> mercurial
>> list.
>
> That's a fair point, but as I mentioned earlier, the problem is by no 
> means limited to TortoiseHg. They are just the worst offender. Crappy 
> extensions appears to be an endemic problem with mercurial extensions. 
> I do not recall a single Mercurial extension that actually came with a 
> README file or similar form of documentation. On the other hand, 
> basically any other open source project you download will have either 
> a README or INSTALL file.
>
> If I had written on the TortoiseHg list, that would have missed the 
> main thrust of my post. This is not a problem with thg in particular. 
> It is a problem with the mercurial ecosystem. So I express the problem 
> in a forum that includes a range of people from the mercurial world 
> rather than just one corner of it.
>
>
>> But knocking on person A's door and angrily telling them that the tool
>> person B makes and that person C packages isn't working isn't improving
>> anything.  I think that is the point the others are trying to make.
>
> I understand. I hope that what I wrote above helps justify my posting 
> in this forum. I see it as talking in the main forum observed by the 
> overall Mercurial community about a problem that is not specific to 
> one extension or one package but appears to be endemic to the entire 
> ecosystem as far as I can see.
>
> If I had thought that TortoiseHg was the only problematic extension I 
> probably would have posted on their list.
>
> Daniel.