> I looked at a few alternative and felt hg is the only workable > alternative that is usable right now.
I'm going to stand right with Bakul on this. The actual reasons are not technical, but they are sound. I don't want to install Python on my Plan 9 equipment, but I have HG on Ubuntu and NetBSD to provide the services I need. I also have no idea if this is viable for a mixture of Plan 9 and Windows, exclusively, I avoid Windows and I'm trying to move away from Linux and Android (yes, same thing, indeed). That said, let me add my encouragement to sample apatch as suggested by Erik, although any valid objections ought to be raised here. One, from me, comes from Erik himself "a modified version of Nemo's (a)patch" (I don't have the exact quote handy. Nemo, could we please start this exercise with one, and only one version of this? ++L