On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Douglas Philips <[email protected]> wrote: > On or about 2009 Jan 19, at 2:00 AM, Peer Sommerlund indited: >> I have a similar setup. At first I did the full install, and did get >> into trouble trying to debug interactions between the two kinds of >> installation. Now, I avoid installing the from-source-version in >> explorer and this gives a stable system. For testing, the hgtk >> command gives access to all dialogs (I think) from the command line. >> >> You should do all steps, except "python tortoisehg.py" which >> installs the explorer extensions - this means just do step 1 and 2 >> of the source installation guide [1]. The only tricky part is >> mercurial installation. [2] >> >> [1] http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/InstallingTortoiseHg.html >> [2] http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WindowsInstall > > Well, as they say, "That first step is a doozy." > I have ActiveState Python already installed. > The rest, I cannot install since, again, I only have one machine, and > I have to be sure that my Python setup is the same as everyone elses > setup on my team. "Oh, but PyGTK won't hurt." Sorry, I've been doing > software for 30 years and far far too often folks forget about some > extra library or search path change or dependency or ... and there is > no way I am spending/wasting any time chasing that stuff down, I have > spent far too much time doing that already in my career. > > Look, having a installer means TortoiseHG's Python environment, > Mercurial setup, etc. are all --isolated-- from my main working Python > install. > Really, building an installer --should-- be easy.
It should. But it isn't (and we are working on it) > I'm talked out on this. I would love to be able to contribute, but my > circumstances are such that it won't happen without a pushbutton > installer build. Just to understand and hopefully help us improve. How is not able to build the installer, easily or not, stopping you from contributing patches? True, you need the to setup the development environment in order to build the installer, but to hack TortoiseHg, you need, and only need, the development environment. I never need to build the installer until it's time for the releases. Ever. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
