mercurial 1.5 sprint was nice

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 09.02.2010 21:05, Steve Borho wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
>> On 02/08/2010 03:35 PM, Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> Hosting the sprint was fun. I had interesting discussions with great
>>> developers, learned things about mercurial and got the feeling the
>>> project was making substantial progress.
>>
>> That is nice to hear.
>>
>> I hope that someone will post and share the most important outcome with the
>> crowd. New things you learned? New insight and conclusions from discussions?
>> New directions and priorities?
> 
> I spent the weekend playing along from home.   I created a new WIX
> based Windows installer for Mercurial, then used that as the basis for
> a new WIX installer for TortoiseHg.

I've been talking with Steve a bit for this (email, IRC), making a few suggestions
and a couple small patches.

Amazingly, Steve was hacking at UTC+1 working hours during the sprint days,
even though he was at home in UTC-6! In other words: he was getting up in the
middle of the night to hack and get online. I was really baffled to see him
online already when I logged-in these days.

Today, I've done a successful local build of the shiny new msi installer based on
Steve's new WiX sources and did a successful first test install on a clean Windows 7
Ultimate 64 bit (running in a VirtualBox VM).

TortoiseHg hgtk dialogs, Windows shell context menu and file/directory status
icons (overlay icons) all working.

Congrats, Steve!

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