[slime-devel] Re: Mercurial

[Helmut Eller]

* RafaB StrzaliDski [2008-03-04 18:59+0100] writes:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Helmut Eller <heller at common-lisp.net> wrote:
>>
>>  It's currently not installed.  But I hope the cl.netters don't mind to
>>  install it.  I did a local install there and also installed the cgi
>>  script (well, server-side include) under
>>  http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/hgweb.shtml.  I think it doesn't
>>  need any other upgrades.
>>
>>  I think hg has some hooks to send emails after a commit, so we would
>>  send that to the slime-cvs mailing list.  I haven't tried it, though.
>>  The script for the daily changelog summary would probably need some
>>  adjustments.
>>
>>  It would be nice to have a CVS mirror of the Mercurial repository (so
>>  that non-committers wouldn't notice the switch) but I couldn't find an
>>  simple solution to that.
>
> Maybe there is something like http://github.com for Mercurial? There
> will no need to
> install hg on cl.net.

Mabye, but I don't know that.  common-lisp.net is such a nice place, I'd
like to stay there.

> BTW
> I've imported slime to git and published it here:
> http://github.com/nablaone/slime/
> Just for test.

A disadvantage of using Mercurial would also be that it's harder to make
a mirror for git/darcs/monotone/svn/wathever.

Helmut.