[oe] oe-core and mercurial

[Chris Elston]

I'm just getting started with oe (specifically oe-core) and ran into a
confusing problem that took me a minute or two to sort out.

The instructions here (which I think are for oe, not core)
http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/OEandYourDistro don't mention that
you need mercurial, whereas the page here:
http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Required_software
does.

I believe that this doesn't matter for oe because it has the
mercurial-native recipe, but this isn't the case for oe-core.

Admittedly sanity.bbclass does check for the presence of hg and warn
that it's missing. I initially didn't see this message and as far as I
could tell my bitbake command returned success having only built the
native recipes.

So the question is, does the OEandYourDistro page need updating for
oe-core? In which case, where do I request a wiki account to do so?  Or
alternatively, should oe-core include the mercurial-native recipe to
cover this case?  Discuss :-)

Cheers,

Chris.