Hackable Mercurial: linker_exe and no-cygwin

[Mads Kiilerich]

Eduard-Cristian Stefan wrote, On 06/07/2012 06:23 PM:
> On 2012-06-07 14:26, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>> Yes, hgbin will be set to 'hg', but hgbin is really not used for 
>> anything. Refactorings are welcome.
>
> About shtests and tsttests: the folder with hg script and the local 
> python
> are in the front of PATH, so it's hard to miss the correct combination.

So what _is_ the right combination ... and why is that the right one?

> Refactoring would mean to replace all hg calls with some env var.

Or avoid putting the directory in $PATH and use other tricks.

Or do like the wiki page says and simply rename 'hg' to 'hg.py' - 
inconvenient but working.

> Is it worth it?

I don't know if 'hackable' is worth it. The idea of having one download 
containing everything needed for running the development version of 
Mercurial and doing development and running the test suite seems pretty 
compelling to me.

Please speak up if you have other and better ideas for how to make it 
more attractive for windows developers to contribute.

/Mads