Another Mercurial - Bugzilla Extension Setup Question

[Melissa Mann]

On 04/25/13 04:06 PM, Jim Hague wrote:
> On Thursday 25 Apr 2013 21:52:13 Melissa Mann wrote:
>> After looking into this a bit further, it looks like I have an old copy
>> of the bugzilla.py file.
>> [..]
>> I'm running Mercurial on opensolaris; here's the versioning info for the
>> mercurial package that's installed:
>>
>> Version: 1.3.1
> Yikes! Your entire Mercurial version is a little antediluvian. Or at the very
> least rather too old to expect the current version of bugzilla.py to work.
>
>  From a cursory glance at the history (i.e. I don't promise that this is
> accurate information :-)), I think you need Mercurial 2.3 at minimum. XMLRPC
> support didn't start appearing in Mercurial until around 1.8.2.
>
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download#Solaris is the most I know on how
> to find packages for Solaris. I am not a Solaris person.
>
> If you can't find anything appropriate, installing Mercurial from source is
> fairly painless on the systems I am familiar with (Linux and AIX).
>
> The age of the Mercurial install has got me wondering about the version of
> Bugzilla you are using. 3.4 is the absolute minimum for XMLRPC access, and if
> you want to mark bugs as fixed with XMLRPC you'll need Bugzilla 4.0. If you
> want to be able to mark bugs as fixed with Bugzilla prior to 4.0, XMLRPC+email
> can do that from 3.4 onwards.
>
> Bugzilla earlier than 3.4 you are stuck with direct database access, which (a)
> only works if the database is MySQL, and (b) I don't recommend and want to
> remove. It's a pain to configure, is only tested on a few specific Bugzilla
> versions, and because it writes directly to the database behind Bugzilla's
> back I am never 100% sure Something Bad can't happen. I did use it in
> production for some years, but feel much safer with XMLRPC, it being a pukka
> supported interface.
Jim,

Thanks for the confirmation.

I noticed that there's an OpenSolaris 11 package available, but my 
company is using OpenSolaris 10.  I'm building/setting up Mercurial 
2.5.4 on a separate machine.

The good news is that our Bugzilla version is 4.2.4, which is very 
recent, so it shouldn't be a problem getting it to work with XMLRPC.

Thanks again for your help.  If I run into any additional issues, I'll 
definitely let you know.

- Melissa