Things we ought to do to improve our packaging

Martin Geisler martin at geisler.net
Mon Aug 12 15:48:38 UTC 2013


Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> writes:

> I have to manually look at each update to be sure that the mercurial
> version is compatible with the tortoisehg version for each of the
> supported releases. Can't automate that.

Maybe you could: TortoiseHg checks the Mercurial version
programmatically on startup:

  https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/src/tip/tortoisehg/util/hgversion.py

A Python script could run this function against each the version of
Mercurial you're releasing.

-- 
Martin Geisler



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