Run Mercurial as Windows Service

[Rafael Villar Burke]

António Mertens wrote:
> I all. First time I'm trying to contribute to opensource projects so 
> be gentle :)
>
> Story so far...
>
>   I've just recently "met" Mercurial and started using it right away.
>   I'm mostly and windows programmer and wanted to use the hg serve 
> option, but to do that, in Windows, you have to leave the terminal 
> window opened (hg crashes with -d but even so I think the terminal has 
> to remain opened). So I created a Windows Service. I thought of it 
> because SVNServer also has the same problem and solved it with a 
> windows service.

>   I don't know if you'll find it useful or not. I can provide free the 
> source code (C# .NET 2.0) and the compiled binaries. I've made a small 
> msi installer but it doesn't installs the service automatically. I'll 
> try to put it online and on a mercurial repos by the end of the day or 
> tomorrow...
>   Please tell me what you think :) Thankx
It's simply great!. Thanks for sharing it!. Having nice tools to 
integrate mercurial in the developer's environment are always a good thing.

Some time ago, some mails on the list commented about a work in progress 
to create a TortoiseSVN clone for hg. This hg service could be a nice 
complement, and perhaps it could be bundled with it in a "Mercurial for 
Win32 GUI edition" ;).

I'm sure you can help a lot with it as, AFAIK, there aren't too much 
windows programmer around here. But... is the TortoiseHG project still 
alive?. Is there a way to see the code?. Knowing this would help to get 
some contributors...

Regards,

Rafael Villar Burke