README.rst
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 18:42:12 -0700
changeset 48847 4561ec90d3c1
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automation: delete code related to Python 2.7 support The building of Inno and WiX installers took a python_version argument that allowed us to specify "2" or "3" for the major Python version. Since we no longer support Python 2, we can delete this argument and everything feeding into it. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12264

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.