[Python-Dev] Mercurial?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>> I'm not sure exactly what the purpose or mechanism for /external is. Sure,
>> it's like a snapshot dir, probably used for to pull some stuff into other
>> process? Seems to me like it might be interesting to, for example, convert
>> to a simple config file + script that lets you specify a package
>> (repository) + tag, which can then be easily pulled in.
>>
>> But it'd be nice to know where and how exactly this is used.
> 
> Basically it contains released versions of packages that some parts of
> Python depend on. For example, Sphinx dependencies to build the docs
> reside their. A simple script that downloads a tarball and extracts it
> seems more elegant.

Such a script would, in particular, also have to work on the Windows
buildbot slaves. /external is primarily used for the Window build.

Regards,
Martin