Is TortoiseHg a Windows-only app?

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 2011-05-22 13:48, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> 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.

And here are two more links :-)

Steve made some nice screencasts using TortoiseHg 2.x:

  https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/public/wiki/hgtraining

and the manual is here:

  http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/manual/2.0/