New standalone Windows release

[Zbynek Winkler]

Matt Mackall wrote:

>>Yes, PeekNamedPipe is also what I found after some googling. Here is a
>>Windows version of sshrepo.readerr() based on that API:
>>
>>    def readerr(self):
>>        hpipee = win32file._get_osfhandle(self.pipee.fileno())
>>        while 1:
>>            try:
>>                buf,avail,ignore = win32pipe.PeekNamedPipe(hpipee, 0)
>>                if avail <= 0: break
>>                l = self.pipee.readline()
>>                if not l: break
>>                self.ui.status("remote: ", l)
>>            except Exception, e:
>>                errno = e[0]
>>                if errno == 109: # other end disconnected or end of file
>>                    break
>>                else:
>>                    raise
>>
>>That change would obviously break Linux, but the 'hg pull' command now
>>works for me under Windows. I also verified that stderr output from the
>>remote gets reported as it should.
>>    
>>
>If you can make a function that wraps both the select and peek
>versions in util.py, I can integrate it.
>  
>
How is this doing? I'd love to see this integrated. I don't myself use 
windows but some of my colleagues do. I've decided to give mercurial a 
shot in our group but for that I need push from windows to work... Is 
there any other way except ssh to 'push' that is know to work on windows?

Thanks.
Zbynek

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