Forest Extension - Not to be found?

[Mark Wielaard]

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:45 -0700, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 2011/7/25 10:06 -0700, kelly.ohair at oracle.com:
> > On Jul 25, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Mario Torre wrote:
> >> I would also like to amend the README files, so that every reference
> >> to the forest disappears, what do you think?
> > 
> > I thought that was already done.
> 
> I don't understand why people are so eager to wipe out all references
> to the forest extension.
> 
> It's a bit clunky, I agree, and the original author doesn't maintain
> it any more, but one Michael Tharp is maintaining a fork here:
>   
>   https://bitbucket.org/gxti/hgforest
> 
> I use this on a daily basis and it works fine.  Until and unless we
> replace the forest extension with something better than a shell script
> I suggest we refer people to this version as a viable alternative.

IcedTea also maintains a version, based on the above, plus some changes
from https://bitbucket.org/pmezard/hgforest-crew and a few fixes so the
server side http hg protocol works against hg version 1.8 (which is what
the icedtea server is running): http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/hgforest

Cheers,

Mark