[thg] TortoiseHg 0.7.1 released

[TK Soh]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately, I've had to take this advice into account sooner than I
> had hoped.
>
> I've just uploaded TortoiseHg 0.7.2 to SourceForge.  The binary is named
> TortoiseHg-0.7.2-hg-1.2.1.exe

No sure if I missed it, but I don't see any 'official' announce on
TortoiseHg mailing list on release of 0.7.2. Some users may not follow
this email trail to catch it.

> http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/wiki/ReleaseNotes
>
> Three bug fixes:
> * the COM server was trying to spawn python.exe each time it was started
> * empty .hgignore files broke the hgignore filter dialog
> * the Mercurial.ini backup feature introduced in the 0.7.1 installer was broken
>
> TortoisePlink has been updated to a version which does not depend on
> MSVCR80 libraries, so vcredist_x86.exe has been unbundled.  This has
> worked on all the
> machines I have tested it on.  Let me know if you have any problems with it.
>
> Because of this unbundling, 0.7.2 is 1.5MB smaller than 0.7.1.