On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 12:06:20AM +0100, Nick Morrott wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 at 16:09, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > I'm curious why python-hgapi exists when from its description it sounds > > like it's a clone of python-hglib which predates it (at least in the > > debian archive) by a number of years? > > Dear Julien, > > I seem to remember checking this when I was packaging the micro:bit > toolchain and finding their different approaches: > > - python-hgapi uses the Mercurial command line for its work > - python-hglib uses the internal Mercurial API for its work > That's not true, actually, python-hglib uses the hg command line, it doesn't use any mercurial internals.
Cheers, Julien > python-hgapi was packaged solely as a dependency for yotta. Having > neither the experience with hg internally, nor the desire, I did not > got through the source to migrate from one to the other. > > Please let me know if you're happy to close the report. > > Cheers, > Nick >
