problems with mercurial-1.9.1 install on MacOsX Lion

[Tom Anderson]

On 10 August 2011 11:00, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
> 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.

Fedora 15 also has 1.9:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/16838654/dir/fedora_15/com/mercurial-1.9-2.fc15.i686.rpm.html

As does FreeBSD:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/mercurial/

Fedora tries to be cutting-edge; i'm slightly more surprised to see
1.9 in FreeBSD. Anyway, it seems that MacPorts is trying to be fairly
cutting-edge too.

That said, i think MacPorts is not coordinated in the way that a real
distro is, so it's probably got more to do with the inclinations of
the individual package maintainer.

>>> 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.

Excellent suggestion! I've updated the MacPorts and FreeBSD entries.

tom

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