[PATCH 5 of 5 stable] crecord: stop raising error.Abort if curses is not found (issue5008)

Sean Farley sean at farley.io
Tue Dec 15 18:06:16 CST 2015


# HG changeset patch
# User Sean Farley <sean at farley.io>
# Date 1450224243 28800
#      Tue Dec 15 16:04:03 2015 -0800
# Branch stable
# Node ID 8fea1f66e5279a305b39fded19ffbf4056a3bf9e
# Parent  23202dc041db998d6e2529b80dd4e7e4d4b4b040
crecord: stop raising error.Abort if curses is not found (issue5008)

On some servers, python curses support is disabled. This patch not only fixes
that but provides a fallback on other machines (e.g. Windows) when curses is
not found.

diff --git a/mercurial/crecord.py b/mercurial/crecord.py
--- a/mercurial/crecord.py
+++ b/mercurial/crecord.py
@@ -46,13 +46,10 @@ except ImportError:
 # On windows, curses can throw a NameError, so check for that here
 try:
     curses
 except NameError:
     curses = False
-    if os.name != 'nt':  # Temporary hack to get running on Windows again
-        raise error.Abort(
-            _('the python curses/wcurses module is not available/installed'))
 
 def checkcurses(ui):
     """Return True if the user wants to use curses
 
     This method returns True if curses is found (and that python is built with


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