Mercurial 1.2 released!

[Christian Boos]

Shun-ichi GOTO wrote:
> 2009/3/5 Christian Boos <cboos at neuf.fr>:
>   
>> Can you please also consider making the bdist_wininst style installers
>> available?
>> It'll be useful for people wanting to use Mercurial together with their
>> already installed Python.
>>     
>
> +1
>
> For example, it is good for the users who want to use trac-mercurial
> plugin on windows.
>   

:-) Right, that was the main use case targeted, as I've sometimes 
queries from people trying to use Mercurial from their all-in-one 
installer. I think it's possible to unzip the Library.zip, but it's not 
an ideal solution.

Besides I can think of other use cases: there's the cute-hg extension, 
for which you need the PyQt bindings, and I don't think it's possible to 
"add" them to the all-in-one installer. Maybe it's possible to install 
them first in a regular Python installation, then extend appropriately 
the PYTHONPATH before calling hg.exe, but I think that's also cumbersome.

The only "issue" with the bdist_wininst installers would be the need for 
having multiple packages matching each major Python version and 
platform. I can contribute some of the builds if needed (2.5 and 2.6 for 
win32 and amd64).

-- Christian