Mercurial Vs. Monotone & Darcs

[Thomas Lauer]

"TK Soh" <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mercurial support on Windows is hardly first class. Even with 0.9.4,
> it still doesn't run 'out-of-the-box'. Hopefully something can be done
> before the 6-9 months period runs out.

Hm... I may be missing some 1st class elements that exist under other
OSes, but for me installing Mercurial (0.9.3 as well as 0.9.4) on a
couple of Win2k boxes was simplicity itself.

I already had a recent ActiveState Python and the MS SDK. So I set a few
environment variables (that's one area which could be made a bit
clearer), ran setup and that was that. (In fact, it was all over so
quickly that I was sure the install had misfired. But no, all was well.)

So compared to a few other VC systems I've played with it was very much
'out-of-the-box'.

(Okay, there could be some sort of batch for hgmerge. But this is
trivial to do once hg is up and running.)

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cheers  thomasl

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