I think it is important that a recent stock mercurial install can check out the full openjdk with a single clone command.
I.e. you should not have to install special extensions just to get the source code. There are several ways this can be solved. But before we dive into discussions on the possible alternatives, I would like to see who else think it is a good idea. Clearly, comments from people outside of Oracle are the most important! (When the source is checked out, then there can be mercurial extensions in the checked out source code for example jcheck that assists in sanity tests before committing. So this does not limit the actual extensions used later. Only that we should not "improve" on the versioning part of mercurial.) //Fredrik
