Re: Add Package Mercurial

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

"Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK)" <arne.babenhauserheide@kit.edu> skribis:

> Am 27.09.2013 21:20, schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>>> The patch is in git diff format with commit message, so I hope you can
>>> apply it.
>> 
>> The patch is not in ‘git format-patch’ format, which makes it more
>> tedious for us to deal with it.
>> 
>> I understand Git may not be your favorite VCS, but we’d be grateful if
>> you could facilitate our work.

[...]

> The only ways I intend to work with git are via emacs vc-mode or via
> hg-git. So either you can take non-amended series of commits with
> repeated corrections (emacs vc-mode), you can take regular diffs or you
> pull from a git-repo (hg-git). Or I have to give up on contributing,
> because I don’t want to hurt my brain any more with the git cli.

FWIW I never use the Git CLI, only Magit (in Emacs), so you may want to
try that one.

>> I tried building it and it fails:
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> starting phase `build'
>> running "python setup.py" with command "build" and parameters ()
>> setup.py with python3 needs --c2to3 (experimental)
>> phase `build' failed after 1 seconds
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> Presumably Mercurial uses a different build system different from
>> “python setup.py”, no?
>
> Ah, that looks like it’s a python3 issue. The easy workaround would be
> to just disable python3 for hg (as for the other python-vcs’).

Would you like to send an updated patch, in whatever form you can
handle?

Thanks,
Ludo’.