The 1.7 freeze has started!

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 21.10.2010 15:00, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen wrote:
> On 21 Oct 2010, at 06:57, Steve Borho wrote:
> 
>> Ok, after a rather painful bisect session of:
>>
>> * get a revision from bisect
>> * local tag it, build an installer, install it, smoke test
>> * if good, bisect -g and repeat
>> * if bad, install known good package, bisect -b, repeat
>>
>> bisect says:
>>
>> The first bad revision is:
>> changeset:   12686:fe31f834a9ff
>> user:        Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr at gmail.com>
>> date:        Tue Sep 14 23:00:39 2010 +0200
>> summary:     demandimport: fix an obscure corner-case.
>>
>> And indeed if I back out this change on the tip of stable, I can make
>> a working installer package again.
> 
> Although I'll readily admit to not completely understanding how  
> demandimport & __import__ work, I still think the change was correct.  
> Is it possible we're running into some odd bug with the zipimporter?  
> Could you try to build TortoiseHg without zip archiving?

It would be a royal PITA to maintain the wix installer sources for a
Windows installer (*.msi) which does that.

There are potentially also issues with path funnies by tons of dll's
suddenly being exposed on PATH (which are now nicely hidden inside the zip).

BTW, this most likely affects the plain mercurial msi installer as well
(not just TortoiseHg).

> Anyway, it's probably best to back the changeset out for now…

If this is possible, yes please.