Porting Mercurial to Python 3

by trovao for Mercurial Distributed Version Control System

Mercurial is growing in popularity as more and more software projects are adopting it. Knowing that the future of Python development will be on Python 3 branch, and that the adoption of Python 3.x depends on the availability of tools and libraries for it, this project proposal intends to implement a mercurial port so that it can run on Python 3.x.