Can't install mercurial or pysvn

Kevin Grover kevin at kevingrover.net
Thu Jun 26 16:26:30 CDT 2008


Situation: I want to play with using Hg on Svn repositories.  I
already have many and am quite familiar with it.  However, I sorely
miss distributed WCs.

I installed Mercurial (1.0.1) under Windows XP using the packaged EXE.
 However, there is no pysvn so I can't 'hg convert' svn repos.

So, I tried to 'python setup.py install' from the unpacked tarball.  I
have python 2.5.2 and many packages already installed.

It says I need Visual Studio.  Or, to add '-c mingw32' to the setup
command.  I tried 'python setup.py -c mingw32 install' and 'python
setup.py install -c mingw32' and both failed (I have MinGW/MSYS
installed).  Can I install hg from an egg (so I don't need to
recompile binaries)?

I will also be using Hg from linux boxes, but most of the workstations
are WinXP and just about all the people I might want to convert from
svn to hg are using WinXP, so it's where I'm testing.

I'm wondering how hard it would be to grab the pysvn egg for py2.4 and
slip it into the runtime for hg.  I might play with this later....

Sorry for the lack of details.  The machine I was using is not
connected to the Internet, so I can cut-and-paste error messages.

Any pointers?

Thanks

- Kevin


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