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From: David Monksfield <dmdm AT dmbrain DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: Latest update seems to have broken Mercurial
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 10:25:44 +0000
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On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 14:09:20 +0100, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On 30.01.2021 10:41, David Monksfield wrote:
> > Mercurial was working fine for me until my last Cywin update (yesterday).
> >  [...]
> 
> Hi David,
> yes I am aware, current mercurial package still requires python 2.7.
> 
> You can see the situation with
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> $ alternatives  --display python
> python - status is auto.
>   link currently points to /usr/bin/python3.8
> /usr/bin/python3.7 - priority 37
> /usr/bin/python2.7 - priority 27
> /usr/bin/python3.6 - priority 36
> /usr/bin/python3.8 - priority 38
> Current `best' version is /usr/bin/python3.8.
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> and change it with
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> $ alternatives  --config python

Brilliant, thanks - that worked!

I'll make sure I change the python default back to 3.8 once the Mercurial package has been updated.

David

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