Which mercurial versions are worth testing against

Rebecca Cran rebecca at bluestop.org
Sun Jan 8 07:31:50 UTC 2017


On 1/7/2017 4:36 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
> Ubuntu LTS is a proxy for “the oldest hg users are likely to be running in practice” for me - and so far it’s worked remarkably well. You might also use something like debian stale as a proxy for that. So far, I’ve gotten relatively few complaints about supported versions of Mercurial.

Depending on who your users are, they may also be using RHEL?  When I 
last used it a few years ago, it had some _really_ old versions of 
packages in it - I think going back to even around 5+ years earlier.

-- 
Rebecca



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