Understanding the relationship of mercurial and it's extensions

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "AB" == Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de> writes:

> Ernie Rael <errael at raelity.com> writes:

>>> If that hg-git extension you mention is so good, why haven't the
>>> Mercurial maintainers adopted it ?
>> 
>> I'm not even sure what he meant by this question (I suggested that
>> maybe some of them do). I guess his concern is reliability, and me
>> saying I've been using it for years and there's been a lot of work on
>> it lately doesn't cut it.

> I think he is right with that worry to some degree. For example
> hgsubversion was also working very well, but it didn’t get ported to
> python3 as far as I can tell, so it’s currently non-operational (please
> correct me if I’m wrong!)

> That Python3 transition caused a ton of breakage in extensions. One that
> I maintain could only be recovered in the past year (infocalypse).

Right another example is the extension for dealing with issues 
artemis 
there is no reliable port to python3, and the author itself stopped
maintaining  it (and switched to git anyhow)
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