Python required?

Haszlakiewicz, Eric EHASZLA at transunion.com
Fri Nov 12 17:57:20 UTC 2010


>-----Original Message-----
>From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com]
>>>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, josef betancourt
>>>> <josef.betancourt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Small quibble.  On the main Mercurial page:
>http://mercurial.selenic.com/
>>>>> the top right section states:
>>>>> Requirements Python 2.4 (get python)Is that really accurate?   If I

>As a matter of fact, _none_ of the packages listed on the downloads page
>except the source tarball require you to install Python. Perhaps the Python
>requirement could just be removed from the home page? A note added to the
>README about what's required would likely be enough for the source tarball.

How about changing that to say:

Requirements (already included in binary packages)
  Python 2.4 or newer (get python)

And move it down after the "Another OS?" section to de-emphasize it.

eric



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