easy_install Mercurial

His business partners and he are getting paid to work on AmaraXML, but asked if the open source community wouldn't consider helping port unittests and do some grunt work for a pre-py3k release of Amara 2.0. As a shameless user of Amara, I would certainly appreciate the estimated 300% speedup, which might put it on par with cElementTree. Uche has decided that the new Amara work will be checked into a Mercurial repository. To be fair, it was between my favorite armchair-qb project Bazaar and Mercurial, both python-implemented source control management systems.

Which brings me back to why bother. Yesterday, I fixed up my python install to default its compiles to MinGW. Yes, I had to follow the instructions to build my own version of libpython25.a - by all accounts on the web, this shouldn't really be required anymore (yet it is! Thanks a lot, ActiveState). I did this to get cElementTree at home. And yes, it builds and runs fine using easy_install now, which is rad rad rad! So now that native compiles work, I figured why not just go for trying an easy_install of Mercurial tonight? If it has binary dependencies (it doesn't seem to), it would be straight-forward to build (it was).

How often does that happen?