Building a Windows Mercurial installer under Linux

[Matt Mackall]

Just as an experiment, working from 

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/BuildingWindowsInstaller

I made the attached shell script, which

- sets up a completely pristine workspace for Wine
- downloads all the components needed for building hg into it
- unpacks and installs them (mostly hands-free)
- grabs a tarball of latest copy of hg
- switches into Wine
- builds hg's extensions
- uses hg to properly pull its own history
- runs py2exe (missing some DLLs)
- runs innosetup (can't find all components yet, have to comment out
icon line)

..but I've successfully built an installer exe.

Needs:

- basic Wine install
- wget
- unzip

With a little work, this might be completely automated, and might also
be able to run the test suite. It's already enough to get a basic
sandbox for testing hg under Windows. It also serves as more precise
documentation of what it actually takes to do a Windows build.

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