This extension has always had correctness issues and has been
unmaintained for years. It is now removed in favor of the third-party
hgwatchman which is maintained and appears to be correct.
Users with inotify enabled in their config files will fall back to
standard status performance.
This patch contains support for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. A README is
provided in contrib/plan9 which describes the port in greater detail.
A new extension is also provided named factotum which permits the
factotum(4) authentication agent to provide credentials for HTTP
repositories. This extension is also applicable to other POSIX
platforms which make use of Plan 9 from User Space (aka plan9ports).
The inotify extension is only available on linux and setup.py will not install
it on other platforms - but it will of course always be there in the source.
test-duplicateoptions.py tried to load most extensions (including inotify if
available). When the local uninstalled Mercurial was used it would thus always
load the inotify extension and cause a warning on unsupported platforms.
The inotify extension is not relevant for this test, so now we explicitly
ignore it.