tortoiseHG for RHEL/CentOS

[Waldemar Augustyn]

On 10/04/2012 03:02 AM, Paul Boddie wrote:
> 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

Are you saying the dependency could be relaxed or that it would not be
difficult to make it work with 4.6.2?