[petsc-dev] I hate Mecurial

[Barry Smith]

On Oct 8, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Sean Farley wrote:

> And why can't Mecurial tell me this when it refuses to work? It knows this is exactly why it is halting, why not tell the user exactly this?
> 
> They did fix some of this in mercurial 1.9:
> 
> $ hg ci
> nothing changed (1 missing files, see 'hg status')  <- hg 1.9 or later

   This is still much too terse. For each of these messages there should be listed a hyper link pointing to comprehensive details on how to proceed. PETSc should have this as well.

    In fact rather than having error numbers in PETSc's PetscError/SETERRQ() we should have hyperlinks or maybe both.


    Barry