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Mercurial still can't have a "flag day" as Macs are still distributed with Python 2, and not 3. Therefore it would make Mercurial significantly worse for mac us
by CJefferson 7y ago
Mercurial still can't have a "flag day" as Macs are still distributed with Python 2, and not 3. Therefore it would make Mercurial significantly worse for mac users if it didn't support Python 2.
- McP 7y agoLast time I used Mercurial (it's been a while) it shipped with its own python executable
- pseudalopex 7y agoYou can install it with pip.
- krupan 7y agoI love mercurial to death, but let's be honest, how many Mac/mercurial users are there? Very few, I would guess. Now, how many of those users don't install a version of python not included with the OS? I'd guess we are getting pretty darn close to zero there.
- eesmith 7y ago"how many Mac/mercurial users are there?" - Hi! I'm one! "how many of those users don't install a version of python not included with the OS". FWIW: % which hg /usr/local/bin/hg % ls -l /usr/local/bin/hg lrwxr-xr-x 1 eesmith admin 30 May 23 2019 /usr/local/bin/hg -> ../Cellar/mercurial/5.0/bin/hg
- CJefferson 7y agoI work with 2 such people (academics, prefer mercurial, use R rather than Python so I can't imagine would have had any reason to install Python 3). Lots of people use version control without being "developers", so not needing a more up to date Python (or, at just happy with Python 2).