On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 14:52:09 -0500, Timothy Johnson wrote:
> I noticed that TortoiseHg uses old versions of several of its components:
> 
>   * Python 2.7.6 - latest version is 2.7.8 (some security
>     vulnerabilities were fixed in 2.7.7 and 2.7.8, including (I think)
>     Heartbleed in OpenSSL)

Python 2.7.6 is not affected by heartbleed vulnerability.  But I agree Thg
should bundle 2.7.8.

>   * PyQt 4.10.3 - latest version is 4.11.2 (see below regarding PyQt5)
>   * KDiff3 0.9.96a - latest version is 0.9.98 (0.9.96a is an alpha
>     version that appears to be over 3 years old)

Somebody needs to build KDiff3 of 32/64bit versions against the bundled
QtGui4.dll, which I think uses MSVC C++ ABI.

> As a Python programmer myself, I think it would also be nice if 
> TortoiseHg used the Qt5 version of PyQt4. According to the Qt 
> documentation, "Qt 5 is highly compatible with Qt 4.

Qt5 itself is mostly compatible with Qt4, but PyQt5 isn't.  AFAIK, there's
no official binary of PyQt4+Qt5 for Python 2.x.

Regards,

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