x64 hg.exe

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 2012-06-22 13:08, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> On 22/06/12 11:30, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
>> On 2012-06-22 03:42, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
>>> Copy the hg file to hg.py, replace the first line with
>>>
>>>    #!C:\Windows\system32\python27.dll
>>>
>>> (for a global installed Python 2.7)
>>>
>> The hg file (mercurials python script in the repo root) needs to be
>> *renamed* to hg.py (not copied), otherwise the suite (MSYS shell) will
>> prefer the hg over the hg.exe for most of the calls in the tests, which
>> works because of the
>>
>>    #!/usr/bin/env python
>>
>> on the first line of the hg file (after all, python is in on PATH and
>> there is a env.exe in C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin, which is on PATH as well).
> 
> Yes, we have discussed that before. The wiki used to say that 'hg' 
> should be removed and replaced by 'hg.exe' and 'hg.py', but I removed 
> that prerequisite in 
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HackableMercurial?action=diff&rev1=29&rev2=30 
> .

[..]

> I changed the description partly to be compatible with the setup you 
> apparently are using, and partly because 
> http://selenic.com/repo/hg/rev/30cfa286947c implicitly introduce a 
> requirement to having 'hg'.

Can you explain to me why 30cfa286947c should have introduced a
requirement to have a hg?

I don't see it.