README.rst
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 18:32:40 -0700
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parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
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automation: set PATH when building on Windows Sometime in the 6.2 release cycle the Windows building automation broke. Building the wheel and even PyOxidizer based installers now fails with: ``` Exception: PowerShell execution failed: error: subprocess-exited-with-error Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully. exit code: 1 [1 lines of output] Unable to find a working hg binary to extract the version from the repository tags [end of output] note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. ``` I have a hunch this is a regression from upgrading pip in 1c00777702da, but I haven't verified this. It may not be, as PyOxidizer has its own bundled Python/pip. So maybe it is something in `setup.py`.

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.