On Dec 2, 12:00 pm, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2008, at 2:56 PM, mabshoff wrote:
>
> > On Dec 2, 11:52 am, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> > Hi,
Hi Tim,
> >> 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.
I wrote "for example", that did not exclude native OSX apps :)
> >> 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.
Well, change EDITOR to something sane like vim and your problem is
gone *ducks*
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.
Cheers,
Michael
>
> ---
> Tim Lahey
> PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering
> University of Waterloohttp://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey
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