Re: [Openexr-devel] Source Control

[Paul Miller]

> A benefit of Hg that is not immediately obvious is that since it is
> based on Python, an Hg installation is assured to have a high-quality
> scripting language available (i.e. Python). Hg is easily extensible.
> This should help with automating tasks (both build and version-control
> related) without encountering the problem that Windows does not come
> with a portable scripting language.

As a huge Python admirer and one who does most of my cross-platform 
development on Windows using ToirtoiseSVN (command-line svn on Mac and 
Linux), Hg sounds pretty cool, though I hadn't ever heard of it.