Improving Windows support

[Mark]

Sorry, should have sent this to the list.

On 4/16/07, Mark <mwatts42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would love to have more frequent snapsnots.  I have been unable to get a
> successful build and install of Mercurial on windows for some time.  The
> problems never seem to be the same but they always seem to resolve around
> pyexe not including something that is needed.
>
> So, while I can not get a succuessfull windows build myself, I would be
> more than willing to run any test suites needed against a snapsnot when they
> come out.
>
> -mark
>
>
> On 4/16/07, Lee Cantey <lcantey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'd personally like to see more feedback on Windows issues raised on
> > the list in general.  I've slowed down Windows snapshots since I
> > haven't gotten much feedback and since the regression tests don't run
> > natively I'm never quite sure if it's going to be a solid build
> > without spending time poking at it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lee
> >
> > On 4/16/07, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:38:23AM -0500, TK Soh wrote:
> > > > On 4/15/07, Michael P. Soulier < msoulier at digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> > > > > On 15/04/07 TK Soh said:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Although hg (can't speak for bzr) run on Windows, it's still not
> > > > > > appearing to the Windozers largely due to the lack of
> > GUI.  These
> > > > > > days, we can't expect most [average] developers on win32 to be
> > > > > > command-line savvy.
> > > > >
> > > > > That, and it's not useable after install due to the conspicuous
> > lack of an
> > > > > hgmerge program.
> > > >
> > > > The setup of hgmerge on win23 is outlined on wiki:
> > > >
> > > >     http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MergeProgram
> > > >
> > > > I only wished things could be simpler for win32 :-(
> > >
> > > Indeed. Unfortunately, most of the folks on crew have limited time to
> > > spend on Windows support and I'm not even in a position to properly
> > > evaluate such patches as I haven't had a Windows machine in about a
> > > decade. If one or two people would like to step forward to do some
> > > more direct maintenance on Windows, that'd be great.
> > >
> > > Another thing that would probably help is automated snapshots of the
> > > Windows installer so that it gets more testing between releases.
> > >
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> -mark




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