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. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
