Shipped plugins keep working after an update; was: Shipping hg-git by default?

[Augie Fackler]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> On 08/10/15 07:09, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> There’s one more point I’d like to add: Shipped plugins keep working
>> after an update or downgrade of Mercurial. And that is crucial for
>> user-experience.
>>
>> I personally never teach anyone in my institute to use anything which
>> isn’t shipped, exactly to avoid breakage on updates (which they might
>> not even control since they are done by the admin).
>
> Interestingly I've just had things broken after an update eventually
> tracked down to hgsubversion which suse had managed to overwrite with an
> old build. It WOULD be helpful if hg-git and hgsubversion could at least
> be married more easily to the version of mercurial that need them.


hgsubversion and hg-git's release versions both support back as far as
whatever is currently in Ubuntu LTS (which I think is 2.8 or so). Both
projects try to issue compat releases coincident with new Mercurial
major releases, but sometimes we miss by a day or two.