Hackable Mercurial: linker_exe and no-cygwin

Mads Kiilerich mads at kiilerich.com
Thu Jun 7 06:26:25 CDT 2012


On 07/06/12 13:10, Eduard-Cristian Stefan wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Mads Kiilerich<mads at kiilerich.com>  wrote:
>> What matters is _not_ having a 'hg' but having a 'hg.exe'. Msys bash will
>> pick 'hg' up if it exists and use the hash-bang with whatever python it can
>> find. Again: That might be a good way of running the test suite, but then it
>> is no longer the 'hackable' approach that Matt introduced.
> If I'm reading run-tests.py right, using the '--local' option will set
> the hg script
> to 'tests/../hg' (not hg.exe)

Yes, hgbin will be set to 'hg', but hgbin is really not used for 
anything. Refactorings are welcome.

/Mads


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