problems with mercurial-1.9.1 install on MacOsX Lion

[Tom Anderson]

On 10 August 2011 10:42, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
> On 08/10/2011 11:36 AM, Tom Anderson wrote:
>>
>> Incidentally, on OS X, MacPorts is a pretty sound way of getting hold
>> of Mercurial - installing is 'sudo port install mercurial', with no
>> possibility of you clicking on the wrong thing, not having the right
>> dependencies, etc. Updates are then equally easy. I'm a big fan of
>> MacPorts.
>>
>> It's also respectably up-to-date, for a repository; it got 1.9 on the
>> 4th of July:
>>
>> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/80095/trunk/dports/devel/mercurial/Portfile
>>
>> No sign of it going to 1.9.1 yet, though.
>
> That could be seen as an indication that it isn't that sound anyway...

You mean because it's too slow at updating, or too fast? Fedora 14's
repo is still on 1.8.4, and good old Debian, well:

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/mercurial

> However, the maintainer or someone from the community should update
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download

Zoinks, yes. Those version numbers should probably be dated, and the
links could perhaps be links to the package info pages. I'd happily do
the editing, but the page says 'Immutable Page' to me.

tom

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