Mercurial 1.8.3 on Jython 2.5.2

[Scott Palmer]

On 2011-05-12, at 4:00 AM, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:

> On 2011-05-12 09:29, Sébastien Deleuze wrote:
>> 
>> pure equivalent of posix.py or win32.py.
>> Do you think it is technicaly possible ?
> 
> No. Unless you find a way to access the plain win32 API functions
> 
>  CreateHardLink
>  CreateFile
>  GetFileInformationByHandle

This is easily done with JNA (without the need to write any native code)
http://jna.java.net/

…and Java 7 has support for links, but probably not enough.

Presumably though the clones could be done as if the --pull option was always specified and then the need to fiddle with links would be gone (at the cost of reduced performance of course).

Scott