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author Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:43:55 +0200
changeset 16217 df5ecb813426
parent 14233 659f34b833b9
child 21812 73e4a02e6d23
permissions -rwxr-xr-x
readme: mention how to run in-place The README describes how to install Mercurial but it does not describe how to run it in place (for developers). This adds a short paragraph to the README describing how to do run Mercurial inplace.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# mercurial - scalable distributed SCM
#
# Copyright 2005-2007 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

import os
import sys

libdir = '@LIBDIR@'

if libdir != '@' 'LIBDIR' '@':
    if not os.path.isabs(libdir):
        libdir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)),
                              libdir)
        libdir = os.path.abspath(libdir)
    sys.path.insert(0, libdir)

# enable importing on demand to reduce startup time
try:
    from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
except ImportError:
    import sys
    sys.stderr.write("abort: couldn't find mercurial libraries in [%s]\n" %
                     ' '.join(sys.path))
    sys.stderr.write("(check your install and PYTHONPATH)\n")
    sys.exit(-1)

import mercurial.util
import mercurial.dispatch

for fp in (sys.stdin, sys.stdout, sys.stderr):
    mercurial.util.setbinary(fp)

mercurial.dispatch.run()