[Buildbot-devel] HgPoller exception "while polling for changes"

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

That is very odd, but I'm going to cop out and write it off with "Huh, Windows!"

Dustin

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Steve Hoelzer <shoelzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
>> Well, the HGPoller takes an 'hgbin' argument that gives the full
>> pathname of the hg binary - perhaps try specifying that?
>
> That worked. I had to put the full path.
>
>     hgbin='C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\hg.exe'
>
> I also verified that 'C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg' is on my PATH so I
> don't understand why it was failing. The slave can do Mercurial
> commands without knowing the full path, but the master (or maybe just
> HgPoller) cannot.
>
> Thanks for your help. I'm just learning Buildbot but I'm quite
> impressed with what it can do.
>
> Steve