Mercurial 1.2.1
Martin Geisler
mg at aragost.com
Fri Sep 30 13:48:40 UTC 2011
Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> writes:
> Piotr Kalinowski wrote:
>
>> On 30 September 2011 12:47, Frank Kingswood
>> <frank at kingswood-consulting.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Mercurial 1.2.1 is the last version that runs with Python 2.3, but
>>> that is not so easy to discover.
>>>
>>> Despite there being many reasons to want to upgrade to a more recent
>>> version it might be useful to mark this version as running under
>>> Python 2.3.
>>>
>>> Red Hat 4.x and CentOS 4.x have Python 2.3 and not any later, and
>>> many organizations still run with RHEL 4 to support other
>>> applications.
>>>
>>> I'm not proposing we make 1.2.1 an officially supported version, but
>>> some uses might benefit from a note on the wiki.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> You do realise you can have mutliple Python versions coexist within a
>> single system, don't you?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Piotr Kalinowski
>
> Yes, but do you have an easy way to cause a python script, written using
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> such as mercurial, to invoke your choice of python interpreter?
The script is written like that to make sure that your current PATH
setting is taken into account. So put the new shiny Python executable in
a directory that is at the beginning and you're done.
--
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