this is working for me, thank you.

Fix has been pushed.

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:40:32PM +0000, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> 
> Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@gmail.com> added the comment:
> 
> The following patch should work.

Queued, thanks.

The following patch should work.

It'd be better to a) search argv for "--traceback" and b) use except Exception,
inst to actually show the exception in the normal case.

this patch is working for me. it would be nice to use --traceback instead. but
that parse call happens after that extension init stuffs, so i cannot. maybe
even though this is ugly, it is ok for extension writers.

diff -r 67779d34cb52 mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Sat Oct 15 15:49:05 2005 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Thu Oct 20 21:52:33 2005 -0700
@@ -2063,6 +2063,8 @@
                 mod = imp.load_source(x[0], x[1])
             except:
                 u.warn("*** failed to import extension %s\n" % x[1])
+                if os.getenv('HGEXT_TRACEBACK'):
+                    traceback.print_exc()
                 continue
         else:
             def importh(name):
@@ -2074,7 +2076,9 @@
             try:
                 mod = importh(x[0])
             except:
-                u.warn("failed to import extension %s\n" % x[0])
+                u.warn("*** failed to import extension %s\n" % x[0])
+                if os.getenv('HGEXT_TRACEBACK'):
+                    traceback.print_exc()
                 continue
 
         external.append(mod)

if i install an extension that has a syntax error, mercurial prints an import
error. i can not find out how to get it to tell me what went wrong. i tried
--traceback, it didnt work.