Where are we today?

[Lester Caine]

On 29/07/2020 13:45, Andrei Dziahel wrote:
> 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.

That is good to hear ... it has been years since I worked on packages in 
the repo's so I was hoping someone was already on top of it! I'd 
considered dropping back to leap15.x but don't think that would make any 
difference in this case?

Just on site with a client's computer which did a windows update Monday 
night as she left the office ... W10 will no longer use the the USB 
mouse and keyboard and there is no PS/2 port on these Dell's! So now 
wasting time trying to find out how to get control back other than 
wiping windows and starting again! The Linux install was much the same 
problem on this laptop so where is all this productivity improvement we 
are supposedly getting :(

> 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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