Is TortoiseHg a Windows-only app?

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 2011-05-22 13:15, Daniel Carrera 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

Yeah. That's the old gtk based TortoiseHg. Development of that has
pretty much ended.

The current (2.X) one is Qt based. See below.

> 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.

The current Qt based version is 2.0.4.

There is a link on https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/wiki/thg
to a blog post

http://g0blin.co.uk/programming/installing-tortoisehg-2-0-under-ubuntu-10-10/

I'm running thg from source on Ubuntu as briefly mentioned on
https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/wiki/developers/Linux

I understand this is quite a bit of a maze of links and pages. People
are just too busy and lazy to update all this.