good platform to build da Vinci on?

[Raffaello Giulietti]

Christian Thalinger wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 18:09 +0200, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> I'm having troubles with mercurial's own mq extensions.
>>
>> I just installed OpenSolaris and extended it according to the general
>> OpenJDK build instructions, then added mercurial and the forest
>> extensions. But while the forest extensions work flawlessly (I could
>> download da Vinci), the mq extensions do not, although they should come
>> preinstalled. And yes, the flags are configured in the .hgrc file
>> according to the build instructions of the mlvm (I tried both mq= and
>> hgext.mq=).
>>
>> Did you (or anybody watching) encounter similar problems with
>> mercurial/OpenSolaris.2009-06?
> 
> No, never had problems with it.  Do you have the mq.py file?
> 
> twisti at macbook:~$ grep mq .hgrc
> mq =
> twisti at macbook:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/hgext/mq.py
> -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 97773 2009-07-23 19:58 /usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/hgext/mq.py
> 

Yes, all mercurial py modules are there, installed by invoking
pkg install SUNWmercurial. None of them, however, is accessed by hg. I
suspect the installer fails to setup something in the environment to
make python aware of the vendor-packages folder.