Is TortoiseHg a Windows-only app?

[Didly]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 May 2011 12:25, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks. I tested it and it works. Next I'll install TortoiseHg and
>> hope that works well.
>
>
> Sigh...
>
> $ hgtk
> abort: This version of TortoiseHg requires Mercurial version 1.3.n to
> 1.4.n, but finds 1.8.3
>
>
> The package just looks unmaintained. Maybe I'm doing something wrong,
> but installing a PPA package on Ubuntu is supposed to be very easy. So
> it looks like, unless I try to compile sources, I will not be getting
> TortoiseHg on the most popular Linux distribution.
>
> Daniel.

Daniel,

the hgtk version of TortoiseHg (i.e. the GTK based version) is the
_old_ version of TortoiseHg. It corresponds to the v1.x series of
TortoiseHg. It is on basic maintenance mode and no new features are
being added to it anymore.

You should install the QT-based version (thg), which is the v2.x
series. It is being very actively developed, fully cross-platform
(Windows, Linux and Mac) and has a bunch of new features. It also
tracks mercurial's development, so it comes with the latest mercurial
version.

Cheers,

Angel