Where are we today?

[Andrei Dziahel]

Hi Lester,

I'm a maintainer of mercurial & TortoiseHG packages in openSUSE and
just made sure TortoiseHG works with hg-git v0.9.0a1 from pip. I'm
going to update the hg-git package in openSUSE after stabilizing it.

Thank you for heads up.


On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:30 PM Lester Caine <lester at lsces.uk> wrote:
>
> Having been using Hg via TortoiseHG for many years I've got a lot of
> material tied up in it. A while back I had to move to OpenSUSE
> Tumbleweed to get the hardware on a new laptop working and I've been
> fighting the problems that creates since day one, but at least the key
> components work ... all but TortoiseHG and hggit :(
>
> I think part of the problem is the decision on OpenSUSE to kill off
> Python2 and only support 3 or at least that is how it seems when I try
> and fix things. I've recently needed to get at some code history and
> have thg 5.4.1 running which says ...
> with Mercurial-5.4.2, Python-3.8.3, PyQt-5.13.2, Qt-5.15.0 and while the
> community repo's have a 5.4.2 thg the .1 version is at least using the
> same official repo's without needing personal ones. But I can't find a
> way to get hggit installed even though in the past I've downloaded it
> myself direct, but I'm of an age now where even writing things down I
> can't remember how to do them!
>
> I would happily switch to the windows machine but even that has problems
> when in the past it WAS a simple install including hggit.
>
> So basically ... what is the best way currently to retain access to
> github hosted projects that I've been locally hosting on hg since
> porting them from CVS and SVN :(
>
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Regards,
Andrei Dziahel