[ANN] Minimal Windows and Mac OS X installers updated to 0.9.5 at http://mercurial.berkwood.com

[Jordi Bunster]

On Oct 28, 2007, at 12:12 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:

> On 22 Oct '07, at 5:07 PM, Lee Cantey wrote:
>
>> I've updated the minimal Windows and Mac OS X installers at
>> http://mercurial.berkwood.com to 0.9.5.
>
> It's nice to have an installer, but why does the OS X one depend on a
> 3rd-party Python distro when Mac OS X already ships with Python* pre-
> installed?

Downloading the .tar.gz sorta works on Leopard if you have XCode  
installed. You go 'sudo make install', and then move the site-packages  
that ends in /usr/local/lib/python2.5/ to /Library/Python/2.5/, and  
you're done.

Makes me wonder how hard it would be to create a Mac OS X package.

> It would really simplify things if the installer put the
> files into /Library/Python. Then people wanting to use Mercurial
> wouldn't need to install a separate package first, and wouldn't end up
> with two different versions of Python on their computers.

--
	Jordi

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