Python required?

[Adrian Buehlmann]

(adding David to cc)

On 2010-11-12 18:57, Haszlakiewicz, Eric wrote:
>> -----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.

I've sent a patch to web page maintainer David that would do this (cc-ed
mercurial-devel) [1].

With that patch, it would look like this (partial screenshot of Google
Chrome on Windows 7):

http://bitbucket.org/abuehl/downloads/downloads/hg-website-base1.PNG

[1] http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2010-November/026245.html