Bug 209527

Summary:	dev-util/mercurial does not have the forest extension
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alex Buell <alex.buell>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Andrew Ross (RETIRED) <aross>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	holger, nelchael
Priority:	High
Version:	2007.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/UsingExtensions
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alex Buell 2008-02-10 13:54:59 UTC

Mercurial is extensible, and there are many extensions that can be added to it - it would be nice to have these installed along with it. 

Two possible ways: 1. add use flags to the Mercurial set of flags to indicate these extensions to be downloaded with it, i.e hgforest to add the forest extension OR 2. build a set of ebuilds that can be installed when Mercurial needs them.. 

The most critical one is the forest extension though as a few open software projects out there needs this feature (openjdk for example)

Comment 1 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-25 17:29:17 UTC

Forest is third-party extension, all the core extensions are already there. Additionally Forest doesn't have downloadable, versioned tarball. For such extensions it's best to manage them on your own.

Comment 2 Alex Buell 2008-03-25 19:56:42 UTC

I see, thank you.