Mercurial and Mac OS X

Steve Borho steve at borho.org
Tue Apr 13 15:57:28 CDT 2010


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Masklinn <masklinn at masklinn.net> wrote:
> On 13 Apr 2010, at 22:21 , Steve Borho wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Masklinn <masklinn at masklinn.net> wrote:
>>> On 13 Apr 2010, at 21:05 , Steve Borho wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Marko Käning <mk-lists at email.de> wrote:
>>>>> Murky is not as feature-rich as TortoiseHg for Windows.
>>>>> There is some problem with umlauts and TextMerge also.
>>>>> Otherwise it's okay.
>>>>> But I mostly use also cl!
>>>>
>>>> TortoiseHG's hgtk can run on a Mac, but you need PyGtk from Macports or fink.
>>> And then you need it to run, which usually doesn't happen.
>>
>> If you have failure messages, I'd be glad to see them.
> Ah no, it's not a problem with TortoiseHG, don't worry, it's just that on many
> macs (including mine) GTK (or pygtk, I don't know, and it might just be the
> macports version) doesn't work correctly (with a bit of luck my next
> machine won't have that issue), and it refuses to launch, so pygtk apps
> don't work.
>
> I've encountered that issue because we're using bazaar at work, and the "main"
> bazaar GUIs are gtk. Simply can't be used on my machine.

Ah, right.  My "but you need PyGtk..." was a big but.

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Steve Borho


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