On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 4:42 PM Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi, everyone. > > I'd like to ask Gentoo repository owners to switch off Mercurial > and remove all Mercurial repositories from repositories.xml. There are > two reasons for that: > > 1. Portage does not support syncing from Mercurial repos, and needs to > use external tools (e.g. layman) for that. > > 2. Mercurial is buggy and maintaining support for those repos is PITA. > > If you noticed that Gentoo repository mirrors did not update for 10 > hours a few days ago -- Mercurial was the reason. It is very fragile, > and if some server chokes during sync, it hangs the whole process until > somebody (which means me) kills it. And it's not the first time it > killed the whole system. > > Yes, I could add process timeouts. But small timeouts are going to > break the occasional necessity of cloning big repos, and big timeouts > are going to make little difference when Mercurial starts hanging again. > So you are against timeouts altogether, or you just don't want to implement them? > > If someone really cares about this horrible piece of software, I'd > appreciate patches (preferably going upstream) to make it timeout sanely > when something hangs. Otherwise, I'd like to announce discontinuation > of Mercurial support soon. > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny >
