Subversion bindings in Windows distribution

[Steve Borho]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:40 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Current 1.2.1 version of Mercurial binaries for windows lacks
> subversion bindings. Attempt to repack library.zip to add bindings
> fails, because format of library.zip seems to include python25.dll in
> some unusual way that common zip tools can't reproduce. Perhaps it
> would be a better option to introduce an extension mechanism so that
> new modules can be added into /libs/ subdirectory of Mercurial
> installation to provide additional libraries.
>
> Without this feature it is impossible to use 'convert' extension on
> windows. Even when Mercurial is installed from nightly builds page on
> http://code.google.com/p/tortoisehg-nightly/downloads/list and
> subversion bindings are already in place there is no 'convert' command
> in this case.

The convert extension is included with TortoiseHg, but it must be
enabled in your Mercurial.ini.  We also ship the subversion swig
bindings.  I think you still need subversion itself installed in order
to convert a subversion repository (consult the THG FAQ).

> BTW, if you decide to update nighties to incorporate extensions it
> will be useful to add this binary packages to pypi -
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=files&name=mercurial&version=1.2.1

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Steve Borho