Python required?

jose miguel hernandez jmiguel.hdez at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 18:42:10 UTC 2010


is 2.4 still the minimum version? i thought it would be 2.6

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com>wrote:

> (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
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