Native x64 Windows MSI package available

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 2010-11-27 00:56, Steve Borho wrote:
> I've just uploaded a pair of Mercurial tip of stable packages that are
> platform specific:
> 
> http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild/downloads/mercurial-stable-1.7.11016-x86.msi
> http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild/downloads/mercurial-stable-1.7.11016-x64.msi
> 
> I would appreciate it if people could test these and let me know if
> you spot any regressions.  The x64 package installs Mercurial as a
> 64bit application, so it will install under C:\Program Files\Mercurial
> on an x64 system and will have the larger address space of a 64 bit
> application.
> 
> It's not likely I will build the current GTK based TortoiseHg packages
> as 64 bit applications, but I do expect to have true 64 bit installers
> of the new Qt port available soon.
> 

Quick initial nitpick:

Isn't it a bit unusual that a Windows x86 installer refuses to install
on x64?

I can't think of having seen a x86 installer for a normal app (i.e. no
driver or similar) that won't install on x64...