problems with mercurial-1.9.1 install on MacOsX Lion

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 08/10/2011 11:48 AM, Tom Anderson wrote:
> 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

Yes, they are (more or less) stable distributions, not the place to get 
the latest version. I don't know which category macports belongs to.

>> 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.

Try to login.

/Mads