[issue13143] os.path.islink documentation is ambiguous

2011-10-09 Thread Garen
New submission from Garen : The documentation for os.path.islink says: "Return True if path refers to a directory entry that is a symbolic link. Always False if symbolic links are not supported." But what does "supported" mean? "Supported" by what? Supported b

[issue7833] Bdist_wininst installers fail to load extensions built with Issue4120 patch

2011-07-15 Thread Garen
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[issue6715] xz compressor support

2010-02-02 Thread Garen
Garen added the comment: Ugh, can't edit previous message. Meant to say: "Once Python gets native support for lzma/xz like it does for zlib and bzip2, Mercurial could switch to using it for bundles and remote transfers." For platforms with native support in-kernel (e.g. Linux

[issue4111] Add Systemtap/DTrace probes

2010-04-15 Thread Garen
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[issue5671] Speed up pickling of lists in cPickle

2010-04-15 Thread Garen
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[issue6715] xz compressor support

2010-02-02 Thread Garen Parham
Garen Parham added the comment: Once Python gets native support for lzma/xz like it does for zlib, bzip2 it could switch to using it for bundles and remote transfers. See: http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue1463 With lzma/xz being able to compress so much better, it'd be r