[issue1109] windows installation asks money =)

[skipass]

New submission from skipass <skipass at mailinator.com>:

Mercurial fail to install according to procedure described for "Any system with
modern Python and SetupTools installed" on
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/BinaryPackages  It still
requires MS Visual Studio to compile - the log is below. Is it possible to avoid
compilation to install Python bindings for Mercurial. We could use command line
client, but many Python tools unfortunately rely on native Python API. It will
be nice to see precompiled windows distribution for Python similar to the one
used in http://www.scons.org/


C:\Python25\Scripts>easy_install.exe -U mercurial
Searching for mercurial
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/mercurial/
Couldn't find index page for 'mercurial' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Mercurial/
Reading http://www.selenic.com/mercurial
Best match: mercurial 1.0
Downloading http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/release/mercurial-1.0.tar.gz
Processing mercurial-1.0.tar.gz
Running mercurial-1.0\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
c:\docume~1\skipass\locals~1\temp\easy_install-uxatq3\mercurial-1.0\e
gg-dist-tmp-v2sskd
error: Setup script exited with error: Python was built with Visual Studio
version 7.1, and extensions need to be built wi
th the same version of the compiler, but it isn't installed.

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messages: 6005
nosy: skipass
priority: urgent
status: unread
title: windows installation asks money =)

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