README.rst
author Raphaël Gomès <rgomes@octobus.net>
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 12:26:57 +0200
changeset 49628 eb383f093a01
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
rust: upgrade supported Rust toolchain version A few months ago¹, a decision was made to move the Rust toolchain target to whatever Debian Testing was tracking. I didn't have the bandwidth to act on it until now. This is starting to be even more problematic than before, now that edition 2021 is out. The CI has been updated to track the current Debian testing version, 1.61.0. [1] https://lists.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-packaging/2022-April/000338.html

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.