1.0 approaches

[Ralf Schmitt]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Shun-ichi GOTO <shunichi.goto at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2008/3/13, Ralf Schmitt <schmir at gmail.com>:
> > I've tested it and it really works.However, running setup.py now prints
> a
> > warning:
> > /usr/local/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py:263:
> > UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'entry_points'
> >    warnings.warn(msg)
>
> Right.
> We need more; like setting them via 'extra' variable with detecting
> setuptools
> is imported.
> I'm not familiar with these thing supporting both old distutils and
> new setuptools.
>

I think this should be rather easy to detect...


>
> > Note that it will help only those users, that have visual studio
> installed.
>
> If we can make solid egg (zip) file, a user can retrieve it and
> install libraries
> and hg.exe by simply invoking easy_install.  It helps users who does not
> have
> compiler.
>

easy_install is also able to download and install the windows installer,
which is generated with plain old
distutils "python setup.py bdist_wininst". It's just a matter of creating it
and making it known to
easy_install via python's cheeseshop. I don't know if the mercurial
developers are willing to that extra work,
at the moment it seems that they rely on others to package a binary
distribution for windows.
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