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Confused, so why is Python 2 a requirement? Name : mercurial Version : 5.0-1 Description : A scalable distributed SCM tool Depen
by mehrdadn 7y ago
Confused, so why is Python 2 a requirement?
Name : mercurial
Version : 5.0-1
Description : A scalable distributed SCM tool
Depends On : python2
Optional Deps : tk: for the hgk GUI [installed]
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 25.95 MiB
- Macha 7y agoPossible options: 1. Some of mercurial's bundled plugins are not Py3 compatible (I recall reading a discussion as an outsider a while back that some plugins are planned to be ported to Rust, not Python 3, but that may have changed) 2. Nobody involved in packaging it for Arch has had time to verify mercurial 5 on python 3.
- Macha 7y agoSo looking into this a bit more (and my edit window has expired), it's because the mercurial team themselves suggest not to package mercurial 5.0 for python 3 yet: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Release5.0 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Release5.0
- mehrdadn 7y agoWeird that it says Windows is the issue but I'm seeing this on Linux.