tortoiseHG for RHEL/CentOS
Paul Boddie
paul.boddie at biotek.uio.no
Thu Oct 4 10:02:16 UTC 2012
On 03/10/12 22:49, Steve Borho wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Waldemar Augustyn<waldemar at astyn.com> wrote:
>> It appears this is due to the QT stack, available for these
>> distributions, that is older than what tortoiseHG requires. So yes, one
>> can have mercurial but not the gui. Is it possible to make a tortoiseHG
>> version that would work with older QT?
> I wouldn't refuse patches that made the current code work on the older
> Qt releases. It would most likely just involve adding 4-5 conditional
> statements. Like most open source projects it just requires someone
> willing to work on it.
According to the dependencies for TortoiseHg [1], Qt 4.6 is needed along
with PyQt 4.7. As I remarked earlier, RHEL6.3 provides Qt 4.6.2, but it
looks like it also only provides PyQt 4.6.2. Still, I can't believe that
this is a deal-breaker.
Paul
[1] https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/wiki/developers/Linux
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