On 02/21/2013 05:41 AM, Justin Lebar wrote:
Can guidance be
provided as to where to get such things for commonly-run versions of Linux?
It's also easy to install hg using pip or easy_install. You can get
either of these tools using your distro's package manager.
(easy_install is usually called python-setuptools or something like
that.) I think pip is the preferred method these days.
The advantage of using pip/easy_install is that you'll always get the
latest version of hg. The disadvantage, of course, is that you're
using an additional package manager.
(and to clarify: since python packages and ubuntu/deb/etc package
management is disparate, this has implications wrt the OS package
manager in that you won't be able to transparently resolve the python
installation as "installed" for purposes of e.g. packages that depend on
mercurial or ubuntu package updates.)
(I wish I had time to ensure that the distillation of this thread went
to the appropriate MDN pages so that when I delete this email thread and
someone asks what they need to do they can find the page, but this is
probably just the worry-wort in me and other folks on IRC will jump in.)
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