<Swing Dev> Request for review: Bug 100054: Make building the Nimbus look 'n' feel optional

[Kelly O'Hair]

Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> 
> On May 15, 2009, at 7:53 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>> The irony here is that yesterday I updated my laptop to Ubuntu 9.04, and
>>> (a) the Mercurial package does not completely install correctly
>>
>> That is disturbing.
> 
> You get a dependency error -- this was on Ubuntu 9.04, and I got a 
> dependency
> conflict between "mercurial" and "mercurial-common", both trying to install
> some *win32*.py file.  It seems mosty benign, but enough that I wasn't sure
> about the errors I was getting trying to run the latest forest package.
> 
> -- Jon
> 

Not sure of the details, but some Linux distributions of Mercurial seem to
have turned on lots of default extensions. This caused all kinds of problems
and I think (I hope) they have stopped doing this.
This seemed related to the debian packaging of Mercurial?

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511872

Can't say that this what you ran into or not, but I remember several Ubuntu
users having problems in our building, some managed to figure out how to
disable certain extensions (inotify?) and work ok.

-kto