Hgk and cygwin

Joe Bruce joe.bruce.psu at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 20:47:09 UTC 2006


On 12/22/06, Andrei Vermel <avermel at mail.ru> wrote:
>
> Works fine for me with tcl/tk from ActiveState.


That's native Windows, not Cygwin, I believe. I use Cygwin for my
development environment (when I'm not on Linux) for other reasons, so having
Mercurial work well on Cygwin is more important to me than on Windows...

Joe


In c:\Mercurial I have:
> * hgk from current top level
> * hgk.cmd containing
> @C:\tcl\bin\wish c:\mercurial\hgk
>
> * hg.bat containing
> @c:\Python24\python.exe c:\Python24\Scripts\hg %*
>
> * Mercurial.ini containing
> [hgk]
> path= c:/mercurial/hgk.cmd
>
> Andrei
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe Bruce
> To: Daniel Santa Cruz
> Cc: Mercurial
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 10:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Hgk and cygwin
>
>
> Unfortunately not. Based on my troubleshooting, it appears that 'tk' is
> incapable of
> 'exec'ing anything other than real EXEs. It refuses to execute any script,
> whether 'hg',
> 'hgk', or a simple shell script of my own making.
>
> I'd love to have this work -- 'hg view' only works under Linux for me. If
> anyone knows how
> to make it work, I would love to know how as well...
>
> Joe
>
>
> On 12/22/06, Daniel Santa Cruz <byteshack at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone attempted and been successful at running hgk under cygwin?
>
> Daniel
>
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