Issue #192: Remove mercurial dependency
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| State: | new |
| Created on: | 2016-02-14 23:31 |
| Updated on: | 2016-05-27 18:45 |
Description
As the project can support mercurial xor git, the mercurial support should not be mandatory.
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Comment by Mads Kiilerich, on 2016-02-15 00:09
All software has features and dependencies you don't need or use. You can choose which VCS is your default. Is it really a problem that Mercurial is on that list?
Comment on 2016-02-15 00:10
When the release upgrade to 0.3 bug on the last release of mercurial. If mercurial is not mandatory it should be removed.
Comment by Mads Kiilerich, on 2016-02-15 00:17
Sorry, I don't understand that sentence.
Comment by Thomas De Schampheleire, on 2016-02-15 12:45
Do you mean that the 0.3 version does not work with the last release of Mercurial? Which version of Mercurial do you see a problem with, and which bug do you see?
It is true that Kallithea may need some changes to support a newer Mercurial version, but that is why the requirements list places a maximum version number for Mercurial, so that only a working version is used.
Comment by domruf, on 2016-02-15 13:24
This would be quite a big endeavor.
The current code base depends heavily on mercurial not only for the hg backend. (kallithea.lib.vcs.utils.hgcompat)
Comment by Long Vu, on 2016-02-15 15:55
@encolpe I have Kallithea 0.3 and it works perfectly with the mercurial version specified in setup.py and that specified mercurial version has both an lower and upper bound ("mercurial>=2.9,<3.6"). If you respect that specified range, you should be fine.
Comment by EirN, on 2016-05-24 17:10
We can use Mercurial command line using hgapi and not depend on Python 2 anymore.
Comment by domruf, on 2016-05-27 18:45
Again this would require HUGH changes to the code. A lot had to be re-written.