I hate Hg extensions

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

On Tuesday 26 July 2011 17:02:27 Lester Caine wrote:
> hg clone 'extension' ... and tell it which version of the extension is
> needed? Actually THAT is how i've sorted my own problems ... the missing
> bits are downloaded from their repo's and linked to the hg installation

That is a maintenance nightmare. I often had hg-git break down on  hg update, 
because that did not pull hg-git with it. So I had to 

	cd ~/Quell/Programme/Mercurial/hg-git
	hg --config extensions.hggit=! pull -u

Repeat for every broken extension, and hope that there are no 
interdependencies or not yet updated extensions. 

What I think we’d need is a generic extension repo. Getting all extensions 
would then mean to do:

	hg clone http://mercurial.selenic.com/extensions
	hg up 1.9

That should then have subrepos for all working extensions, and make sure that 
only working extensions are included, cleanly seperated into branches for hg 
versions. 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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