mercurial at 10000: 6 new changesets (2 stable)

[Martin Geisler]

Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 22:15, Mercurial Commits <hg at intevation.org> wrote:
>> http://selenic.com/repo/hg//rev/f91e5630ce7e
>> changeset:   9999:f91e5630ce7e
>> user:        Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr at gmail.com>
>> date:        Tue Dec 01 16:06:10 2009 +0100
>> summary:     setup: install translation files as package data
>
> I'm not really seeing what this buys us for the templates dir, other
> than massive confusion for everyone who has done anything custom with
> templates. Is this really necessary?

The templates are installed in the same location as always, that is,
inside the mercurial/ directory.

What this changes is the setup.py code: before this, setup.py had a hack
to work around the lack of package_data in Python 2.3. The hack simply
turned data_files into package_data which means that everything was
installed relative to mercurial/.

After "de-hacking" this, we can now again use the data_files keyword
argument to install files outside of mercurial/.

Well, that's the idea at least... we've since then seen that it might
not be a good idea to use data_files for the zsh and bash completion
scripts (since we don't know where they should go on all platforms).

-- 
Martin Geisler

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