Cygwin now on Python 3? What about Mercurial?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 07.03.2021 10:32, Russell VT via Cygwin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 8:39 AM Ken Brown via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/4/2021 6:05 AM, marco atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 10:27 AM Russell VT via Cygwin  wrote:
>>>> Cygwin Enthusiasts!
>>>
>>> It seems the current package maintainer for Mercurial is not available
>> for
>>> the upgrade from 2.7 to 3.8.
>>> We need to decide how to proceed
>>
>> The Mercurial maintainer (Jari) doesn't always follow the mailing list.
>> I've
>> added him to the CC.
>>
> 
> Thanks Ken!
> 
> In the meantime, I'll  take a look at the Package Contributors' Guide, as
> was suggested by another... and maybe I can hell fill in some blocks with
> some of my own resources.
> 
> Cheers!
> Russell VT
> 

Mercurial has been just updated to version 5.7
https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/mercurial.html

and it now depends on python3.8

Regards
Marco