On Dec 2, 2008, at 2:56 PM, mabshoff wrote:

> On Dec 2, 11:52 am, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
>> currently on OS X (at least 10.5.5) Sage's mercurial will crash when
>> it executes EDITOR and it picks up libpng for some reason.
>
> This is when EDITOR is set to something that is for example Fink or
> MacPorts based. To this day I think it was a colossal stupidity by
> Apple to change libpng, but we have to live with that.
>

But, I'm using mate which calls TextMate which isn't Fink or Macports
based at all, so it isn't just those two.

>> This is
>> inconvenient because hg_sage.commit() won't work from within Sage. In
>> discussions with Michael Abshoff the possible solution to this is to
>> patch hg to use sage-native-execute.
>>
>> Do others think this is a good idea? And how should this be done?
>
> To do this we need to slightly patch hg sources, but I think we should
> do it. Enough people around here had run into that problem, i.e.
> Justin with that editor called Emacs I have never heard off :)
>

Heh. I'm certainly in favour of it, because I'd rather not maintain
a second mercurial installation.

Cheers,

Tim.

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Tim Lahey
PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo
http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey

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