README
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 19:59:52 -0800
changeset 31289 718a57e95a89
parent 26421 4b0fc75f9403
child 33618 76b171209151
permissions -rw-r--r--
setup: use setuptools on Windows (issue5400) We've had a long, complicated history with setuptools. We want to make it the universal default. But when we do, it breaks things. `python setup.py build` is broken on Windows today. Forcing the use of setuptools via FORCE_SETUPTOOLS=1 unbreaks things. Since the previous bustage with making setuptools the default was on !Windows, it seems safe to move ahead with the setuptools transition on Windows. So this patch does that.

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.