[ANN] TortoiseHg-0.3: suggestion and changelog browser bug

[Steve Borho]

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:22 +0100, Jens.Wulf at sew-eurodrive.de wrote:
> > It sounds to me like the window is locked up or is not being refreshed
> > properly at all.  Do all of the dialogs have this problem, or just the
> > log viewer?  The log viewer is unique in that it uses cairo.
> It is not the whole window, but only the summary line in the revision
> table; everything else is fine (easy to notice on graph, rev and
> date).

That is exceptionally strange, as there's absolutely nothing special
about the summary column.  It's just reading that data out of an array
just like all the other columns save for the graph.

> > A quick google search gives me a suspicion that W2K and GTK2 do not
> > get along well.
> There are several versions of gimp (gtk2, as far as I recall) in use
> on those win2k machines here. No known problems.

TortoiseHg has a grand total of two developers at the moment, and
neither of us has a W2K machine to test with.  We would gladly accept
any patches or custom built installers that addressed W2K problems.

> > I think you'll have much better luck on an XP machine.
> Which means that I need to stop using the tortoisehg installer and
> roll my own installation using the old "hg view". If I were allowed to
> use XP I could also probably install linux at once -- but I am forced
> to use this win2k installation here.
> 
> So please keep bundling the old "hg view"...

TortoiseHg 0.3 came with hgk and it's extension.  You just have to
download a tcl interpreter to be able to run it.  There's instructions
in the TortoiseHg FAQ.

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