Mercurial 1.7.2+ higher source packages cause IIS7 / isapi-wsgi (hgwebdir_wsgi) to fail

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 15:27 +0000, Lionel wrote:
> Same here (with no surprise...).
> 
> But doesn't the fact we use the python-built version of Mercurial (rather than
> the C-compiled) defeat the advantage of using isapi instead of the hgwebdir
> script? I mean, we gain on one hand (ie the speed of Isapi) what we loose on the
> other hand, don't we?

C-compiled version?

I assume by that you mean the .exe version. As it happens, that's simply
a copy of Python wrapped up with Mercurial's extensions and Python
bytecode. I don't think that performance there is any different than
typical Python performance.

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