[brailleblaster] Re: Where can I find Mercurial for the Mac?
- From: Alex Jurgensen <asquared21@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:09:30 -0700
Hi John,
Oops. I was thinking of the Braille Note (original). It never crossed my mind
that the MPower was supported though.
I guess you learn something new every day.
Regards,
Alex,
On 2011-07-23, at 6:07 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> --
> 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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