[brailleblaster] Re: Where can I find Mercurial for the Mac?

  • From: Alex Jurgensen <asquared21@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:03:36 -0700

Hi,

I use an Open-Source program called MacHG for this.

It has its own internal version of thee command-line tool and therefore does 
not depend on external tools.

Regards,
Alex,


On 2011-07-23, at 6:25 AM, Michael Whapples wrote:

> Hello,
> The official mercurial website has installer packages for the Mac. On the 
> actual downloads page it has different versions for which version of MacOSX 
> you are running. Make sure you choose your correct version of MacOSX as it 
> relies on the python version included in MacOSX and it is different for 
> different versions of MacOSX (eg. in Lion it is python 2.7 but in snow 
> leopard it is python2.6).
> 
> Here is a direct link to the downloads page for mercurial 
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads/
> 
> Michael Whapples
> On 23 Jul 2011, at 12:28, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 
>> Installing Mercurial from source is tricky, so i would like the 
>> equivalent of an rpm that includes all dependencies, even a version of 
>> Python.
>> 
>> Incidentally, it turned tou that the version of pkg-config to use for an 
>> initial install is 0.22. The version I initially downloaded, 0.26, is 
>> evidentally intended as an upgrade. 0.22 works fine.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> -- 
>> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
>> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
>> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>> Madison, Wisconsin USA
>> Developing software for people with disabilities
>> 
>> 
> 

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