Hackable mercurial based on python 2.7

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 2012-06-25 07:50, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
>> On 2012-06-19 08:16, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
>>> Matt,
>>>
>>> Steve has just released the first TortoiseHg and mercurial installer
>>> nightly builds which are based on Python 2.7. I believe the plan is to
>>> only release 2.7 builds from now on (Steve, please correct me if I'm
>>> wrong).
>>>
>>> I wonder, do you have any plans to move the hackable mercurial package
>>> to 2.7 as well?
>>
>> Angel, do you have x64 Windows?
>>
>> I've just uploaded
>>
>>  hg-hackable-x64-python27-ec5ef276077f-1.7z
>>
>> to https://bitbucket.org/abuehl/downloads/downloads
>>
>> It includes my latest hg.exe.
>>
>> It does not include Python, so you need to install that separately
>> (requires Python 2.7).
> 
> Adrian,
> 
> I guess this needs the x64 version of Python 2.7?

Yes, it requires a x64 Python installed.

I use the official
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/python-2.7.3.amd64.msi

$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:24:47) [MSC v.1500 64 bit
(AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Install it "for all users of this computer", if you can (that is, if you
have admin rights on that computer, which I bet you have, since
installing TortoiseHg requires admin rights too for installing. [And no,
I won't help changing that for those whining about it each time I
mention it]).

Running python-2.7.3.amd64.msi also won't change the PATH. I recommend
you let install it into C:\python27_x64 or something similar (I forgot
what the default is, that the installer proposes. It may already be
that). Double-click python-2.7.3.amd64.msi to start the installation and
then go through the dialogs (accept the UAC admin prompt). It's a
familiar msi installer, like the one of TortoiseHg.

It will install python27.dll in C:\Windows\system32 if you let install
it "for all users of this computer" (I think that's the default), so it
can be easily found by every program that links to it (like my hg.exe).

AMD64 is just the 64-bit processor architecture, it doesn't require an
AMD CPU. Intel will do fine (in the past, there was also another 64-bit
architecture, IA64).

> I'm on 64 bit windows 7,

Nice. So you have AMD64 architecture hardware (like many people do
today). Start using it! :-)

> and I have python 2.7 installer, but it is a x32 version
> (actually it is the Enthough's Distribution Python 2.7 version). When
> I run your hg.exe I get:
> 
> ImportError: No module named site

See above.