Mercurial 1.8.3 on Jython 2.5.2

[Sébastien Deleuze]

Thanks for all these interesting feedbacks.
Running Mercurial on Jython require more work than I thought, but now
I know what are the missing parts.
If anyone is interested by this subject, feel free to contact me to
join forces :-)

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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