Python required?

[Tony Mechelynck]

On 12/11/10 18:57, Haszlakiewicz, Eric wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com]
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, josef betancourt
>>>>> <josef.betancourt at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>> Small quibble.  On the main Mercurial page:
>> http://mercurial.selenic.com/
>>>>>> the top right section states:
>>>>>> Requirements Python 2.4 (get python)Is that really accurate?   If I
>
>> As a matter of fact, _none_ of the packages listed on the downloads page
>> except the source tarball require you to install Python. Perhaps the Python
>> requirement could just be removed from the home page? A note added to the
>> README about what's required would likely be enough for the source tarball.
>
> How about changing that to say:
>
> Requirements (already included in binary packages)
>    Python 2.4 or newer (get python)
>
> And move it down after the "Another OS?" section to de-emphasize it.
>
> eric
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By clicking that "Other" link, I notice that one-liners are mentioned 
for several Linux distributions but not mine (openSUSE) where one could 
(in recent versions, where Mercurial is included in the distribution) 
either run

	zypper install mercurial

from a root console, or (maybe with a workflow more familiar to many 
openSUSE users) start the YaST GUI (or cursesUI), select "Software 
Management", search for Mercurial, and install from there.

Whether using zypper or YaST, the OSS repository ( 
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ for the current 
openSUSE 11.3 release) may have to be enabled if it isn't yet.


Best regards,
Tony.
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