"batteries included"-installer, was: NullSoft installer for Mercurial

[Jens.Wulf at sew-eurodrive.de]

Hi Steve,

> PS2: I'm still waiting for more feedback on the "batteries included" installer. 
> If anyone is actually using it :) , please let me know where it needs to be improved. 

I just tried your "batteries included"-installer and I am glad to have "hg view" and "hg vdiff" now. Maybe I will get used to "hg qct", too (which I don't use at home/linux).
I did not install to "C:\program files\mercurial" and broke "hg view" by doing so, as there are absolute paths in 
	mercurial.ini
	scripts/hgk.cmd
So I had to edit those files. I think this is not too bad with mercurial.ini (as it is global and overriden by my local one anyway), but one should not have to touch scripts/hgk.cmd.

Regarding your installer philosophy questions: generally I like the modular/linux approach which allows to install (mostly static) things like tcl/tk from distribution packages and evolving software (like hg) from source. But as I often feel that this is not as easy on windows I opted for "batteries included". Furthermore, your modular installer description lists some outstanding issues.

Thanks for your work,
Jens


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