README.rst
author Manuel Jacob <me@manueljacob.de>
Sat, 21 May 2022 23:31:30 +0200
changeset 49232 4c57ce494a4e
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
worker: stop relying on garbage collection to release memoryview On CPython, before resizing the bytearray, all memoryviews referencing it must be released. Before this change, we ensured that all references to them were deleted. On CPython, this was enough to set the reference count to zero, which results in garbage collecting and releasing them. On PyPy, releasing the memoryviews is not necessary because they are implemented differently. If it would be necessary however, ensuring that all references are deleted would not be suffient because PyPy doesn’t use reference counting. By using with statements that take care of releasing the memoryviews, we ensure that the bytearray is resizable without relying on implementation details. So while this doesn’t fix any observable bug, it increases compatiblity with other and future Python implementations.

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.