[ANN] tortoise-hg

[TK Soh]

On 4/26/07, Andrei Vermel <avermel at mail.ru> wrote:
> qct looks consequently for 'hg', 'hg.cmd', 'hg.bat' and 'hg.exe' in your path.
> If any one is found, it is then gets called.
>
> In your case 'hg' happened to be in the path, so qct tries to execute 'hg root'
> without any success apparently.
>
> To work around you can change order of checks for 'hg', 'hg.cmd', 'hg.bat',
> 'hg.exe' in qctlib\vcs\hg.py.
>
> A proper fix apparently should be to try to execute the various hg.* before
> using one for real work.

Why is Qct looking for 'hg' first? IIRC, windoze can execute 'hg'. It
needs to have the usual executable extension, ie, hg, hg.bat, hg.ext,
etc.

p/s: I cc the mailing list on this conversation, I'm sure some people
will get some benefit from it, or provide their comments.