Meld 3.18.0-1 does not start

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Mon Jul 27 17:01:19 GMT 2020


On 7/27/2020 12:57 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 7/27/2020 9:50 AM, Rabbe Fogelholm wrote:
>> I am having problems with meld 3.18.0-1. On startup I get
>> "fatal: external diff died, stopping at <filename>", where <filename> is a
>> file to be inspected. My workaround is to downgrade to 3.16.4-1, which
>> works.
>>
>> I am running cygwin on Windows 10. My cygwin installation is recently
>> updated, except I am using version 3.0.7-1 of the cygwin DLL.
> 
> That's your problem.  meld is a python3 script.  python3 won't work with 
> cygwin-3.0.7-1.

I should have said "the current release of python3".


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