Booting up 0.9.4
Mark A. Flacy
mflacy at verizon.net
Tue Jul 24 03:32:13 CDT 2007
On 2007.07.23 13:45, Clint Olsen wrote:
> Not to sound ungrateful for Mercurial, but this install thing is
> getting
> irritating. I really wish the methods for getting the Mercurial
> runtime
> working would stop changing.
>
> I used to have to set PYTHONPATH to some location in my installation
> area.
> Now it appears Mercurial scribbles in some Python version-specific area
> instead of just '...lib/python'. I noticed that PYTHONPATH is not
> documented in the root area in the installation, but if it set it to
> NULL
> (but it must be set), hg figures out where it's marbles are and runs.
>
> And while you're at it, can we do away with environment variable
> presets in
> order to get Mercurial running? That's what wrapper scripts are for.
> And
> since hg doesn't do much of anything other than import the entire
> class of
> Mercurial, it seems logical to put that kind of stuff there.
Perhaps you have crud left over from earlier installations; I don't
have PYTHONPATH set at all. I also don't have any Mercurial specific
environment variables preset to get Mercurial to run.
--
Mark A. Flacy
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