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Re:Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab by Annatar on Sunday September 23, 2018 @01:49AM (#18049582)
I've been using Mercurial on Solaris 10 since 2006.

What you're saying is that if I had to upgrade to a newer version of Mercurial which used software written in Rust, I'd have to bootstrap and port an entire programming language, just to use a newer version of my revision control software?

Re:Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab by Bjartr on Thursday September 27, 2018 @04:04PM (#18088069)
That would be entirely up to the maintainers of Mercurial if they would distribute pre-built packages for Solaris 10. If you're concerned, you'd be better off making the case to them to do just that.
Re:Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab by Annatar on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:00AM (#18091205)
It's about the concept, not about Mercurial per se: nobody should be forced to have to bootstrap and port an entire programming language just to be able to use a newer version of an application. That's insane and irresponsible, not to mention selfish.
Re:Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab by Bjartr on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:36PM (#18095263)
How strongly are you claiming "nobody" here? Does the cost of supporting niche platforms ever get too high in your mind? If so, what is an appropriate line to draw for cutting off explicit support?