[PATCH 1 of 2] demandimport: blacklist pythoncom

[TK Soh]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Steve Borho <steve at borho.org>
>> # Date 1236650437 18000
>> # Node ID 57fa116520f56e5ea21e65489586388787f7b335
>> # Parent  55bd03e2e13c65eeb7175abfc60f9a6ef5e6f0f4
>> demandimport: blacklist pythoncom
>>
>> win32com.shell would segfault at import time if pythoncom
>> was demand loaded.
>>
>> diff --git a/mercurial/demandimport.py b/mercurial/demandimport.py
>> --- a/mercurial/demandimport.py
>> +++ b/mercurial/demandimport.py
>> @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
>>     '_xmlplus',
>>     'fcntl',
>>     'win32com.gen_py',
>> +    'pythoncom',
>>     # imported by tarfile, not available under Windows
>>     'pwd',
>>     'grp',
>
>
> Could this patch make it into 1.2.1?   TortoiseHg is using
> demandimport internally
> and it calls win32com.shell functions to notify the overlays when
> files have changed.
> There have been a few segfaults reported since we started using demandimport and
> I believe they would be fixed by this patch.

In case the patch is not accepted in time, is it possible to work
around this in TortoiseHg by manually adding pythoncom into
demandimport.ignore list before enabling it?