[PATCH STABLE V2] windows: implement nlinks() using Python's ctypes (issue1922)

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 2011-01-26 22:31, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 17:56 +0100, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
>> Can we require Python >=2.5 (at least for Windows) for 1.8?
> 
> I'd rather keep the requirements in sync with the rest of the world.

Would it be ok to require that those users who want to stick with Python
2.4 on Windows (and who don't use one of the public well known binary
installers of Mercurial which include Python) have to install ctypes
instead of pywin32 for Mercurial 1.8?

ctypes is available as a separate installer for Python 2.4 for Windows.