From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Meld 3.18.0-1 does not start
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:01:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2208d064-934e-d4d9-a33e-220a226d467c@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17388f9e-d04c-3576-e6dd-965788a0e597@cornell.edu>
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".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-27 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-27 13:50 Rabbe Fogelholm
2020-07-27 16:57 ` Ken Brown
2020-07-27 17:01 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2020-07-28 13:45 ` Rabbe Fogelholm
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