Mercurial 0.9.5 released!

[Steve Borho]

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:13 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 20/10/2007, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> > Mercurial 0.9.5 is available for download at:
> >
> >  http://selenic.com/mercurial/
> 
> When will Windows binary installers (not the new "Batteries Included"
> or "Python Approach" versions, but the packaged py2exe build which was
> previously distributed) be available?
> 
> Just for reference, the reason I don't want to use the new builds is:
> 
>  * Batteries included - I don't like/want the extras like kdiff and qct.

This is useful feedback for me.  Now that I'm bundling the python based
hgmerge script, there's less incentive to include kdiff3 directly in the
bundle.  The user should be able to download and install just about any
merge tool they like and hgmerge should just work.

The only reason to bundle kdiff3 anymore is to provide a working visual
diff configuration out of the box. On my Windows machines I prefer
SourceGear's DiffMerge to kdiff3, but it's not open source so there's no
chance of me bundling it.  I'm curious what other people think about
this.

The case for unbundling qct is less compelling.  Once you make the
decision to bundle PyQt for qct, you get to include hg-config and hgview
for basically free in terms of package size.  And removing all of those
defeats the purpose of an all-in-one installer.

There's always going to be a constituency for the bare-bones py2exe
package.

>  * Python approach - I don't want Mercurial to depend on my installed
> Python

Sure.

-- 
Steve Borho (steve at borho.org)
http://www.borho.org/~steve/steve.asc
Key fingerprint = 2D08 E7CF B624 624C DE1F  E2E4 B0C2 5292 F2C6 2C8C