>> - Availability: Neither Suse Linux or any BSD variants (FreeBSD,
>> OpenBSD, NetBSD) provide Mercurial packages as part of their
>> distributions. Choosing a niece product may not be wise. git,
>> Subversion and bitkeeper are not only more popular - they are also
>> much more widespread and better tested than Mercurial thanks to the
>> far larger community.
>
>Isn't FreeBSD itself migrating to Mercurial ?
>http://www.keltia.net/EuroBSDCon/slides.pdf


Selecting a niche product may also tell you how rigorous the selection
process was; the "well known, main stream contenders" just failed
to deliver the goods.

I'd rather use a niche product which works than a main stream product
which doesn't.

(Were you using the "Microsoft" argument?)

Casper
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