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From: "Cédric Krier" <cedk@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing support for mercurial repos in repositories.xml
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 08:35:12
Message-Id: 20181109083409.GR5461@kei
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing support for mercurial repos in repositories.xml by "Cédric Krier"
1 On 2018-10-04 18:05, Cédric Krier wrote:
2 > On 2018-09-29 11:42, Cédric Krier wrote:
3 > > On 2018-09-23 22:42, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > > > Yes, I could add process timeouts. But small timeouts are going to
5 > > > break the occasional necessity of cloning big repos, and big timeouts
6 > > > are going to make little difference when Mercurial starts hanging again.
7 > > >
8 > > > If someone really cares about this horrible piece of software, I'd
9 > > > appreciate patches (preferably going upstream) to make it timeout sanely
10 > > > when something hangs. Otherwise, I'd like to announce discontinuation
11 > > > of Mercurial support soon.
12 > >
13 > > FYI, I send an email to mercurial list to talk about this issue [1]. And it
14 > > seems that for HTTP connections there is no timeout on the connection.
15 > > I'm working to provide to the upstream a solution to be able to
16 > > configure a timeout.
17 >
18 > Normally, the feature should be available for the next release of
19 > mercurial: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4878
20
21 For the record, the feature is now in the release 4.8 of Mercurial:
22 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Release4.8
23
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25 Cédric Krier

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