Bazaar Mercurial Plugin to access BitBucket

[Martin Geisler]

"Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" <brendan.simon at etrix.com.au> writes:

Hi Simon,

> The other option is to move to Mercurial for "native" support for BB
> repos, and I presume there is Mercurial-Git plugin for accessing other
> git repos.

Yes, there is hg-git: https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git

> So the big question is ..... why use Bazaar instead of Mercurial ??
> Given Bazaar is no where near as widely used, what makes Bazaar so
> different, so much better, that I should stay with Bazaar ??
>
> Pure python was one reason I initially started using Bazaar, but I
> don't think that was a very good reason by itself. It sounds like
> Mercurial is mainly python, with a small portion in highly portable C
> (or C++ ??) where performance is required/desired.

By line count, Mercurial is 95% Python and 5% C. We still have the pure
Python versions of the C code and you can install it by passing --pure
to setup.py.

But you would only want to use that if you somehow don't have access to
a C compiler and if there's no precompiled binaries for your platform.

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Martin Geisler

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