Native x64 Windows MSI package available

[Steve Borho]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> 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...

Our TortoiseHg x86 installer will not install on x64, but perhaps that
is unusual.

-- 
Steve Borho