[brailleblaster] Re: Where can I find Mercurial for the Mac?
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:07:12 -0500
Alex,
The Braille Note MPower is supported. It does not have a USB port for
the Braille display, so it would require a USB-to-serial adapter.
John
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 03:53:13PM -0700, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I am afraid that the USB to Serial adapter approach will not work as far as I
> am aware. The Mac doesn't seem to support any serial adapters.
>
> You can use MacHG from the command-Line. It says that it is a GUI tool, but
> it has the command-line tools for Mercurial included.
>
> The Mac Update URL for Mac HG is:
> http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36098/machg .
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Alex,
>
>
> On 2011-07-23, at 2:45 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
>
> > Alex,
> >
> > Where can I obtain MacHG? Can you give me a direct URL for downloading
> > it? I assume I can run it from the command line using ssh. That is how I
> > am working on my Mac right now. When I get a USB-to-serial adapter I'll
> > connect my Braille Note and use Voiceover.
> >
> > I looked at the Murcurial download site, but I couldn't find anything to
> > download. This happens to me all the time. Why are websites set up like
> > that?
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:03:36PM -0700, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
> >> 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
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > 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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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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