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22 Nov 2023

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• 00:11
  tomman
  glandium.org/blog/?p=4346 FINISH HIM!
• 00:11
  tomman
  > How I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla
• 00:13
  tomman
  the backstory is very interesting for a dude like me whose interaction with VCS is basically "<whatever> clone foo.foo/blah"
• 00:18
  tomman
  also looks like Mozilla repos are literally a disaster zone
• 00:19
  tomman
  holy hell, 350 thousand files!?
• 00:19
  tomman
  and that's just Gecko alone!
• 00:19
  tomman
  ah no, mozilla-central
• 09:42
  njsg
  mozilla-central is probably a good test case to try to improve efficiency in mercurial, if there's any room for improvement
• 09:44
  njsg
  a short comment on that, though: I think mozilla is moving to *github* not just git
• 09:46
  njsg
  (which appears to be mentioned further below but not at the top?)
• 20:10
  frg_Away
  Not sure when we are forced to follw but might be stuck on rust 1.73 for some time for macOS:
• 20:10
  frg_Away
  blog.rust-lang.org/2023/09/25/Incre…ing-Apple-Version-Requirements.html
• 20:10
  frg_Away
  quote: We want Rust to be a first-class option blablablablabla and more blablaba
• 20:31
  tomman
  Move! Fast! And! Break! Things!!!
• 20:33
  tomman
  "A total of 27 Mac system models, released between 2007 and 2009, are no longer supported."
• 20:33
  tomman
  translation: "why are you still using a 15 year old Mac? Why are you still using computers older than last year anyway!???!?!?"
• 20:37
  frg_Away
  At least some 2009 mac Minis with late Core2Duos would be affected which usually run fine. Not tested but not bad hardware more or less like the Thinkpad T500 X200 and up area.