Installing Mercurial on MacOS Big Sur

[Noel Duffy]

> On 16/02/2021, at 21:18, Johannes <hguser at bbe-moldaenke.de> wrote:
> 
> Noel Duffy asked:
>> So, for Big Sur, what’s the best option to get Mercurial installed
>> with proper verification of the source?
> 
> I'm not sure about the best way. But because you mentioned living on
> the command line one option is to install Python (they have GPG signed
> downloads) and then just
> 
>    pip install mercurial
> 
> or if pip isn't included download some version of pip and copy it to
> site-packages and then
> 
>    python -m pip install mercurial

But that just moves the problem. Pip does not support signing or verifying packages, as far as I am aware.