contrib/wix/README.txt
author Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
Mon, 07 May 2018 14:32:55 -0700
changeset 37911 0a79fb64118e
parent 17251 98166640b356
child 41851 765f836a9484
permissions -rw-r--r--
revset: use resolvehexnodeidprefix() in id() predicate (BC) We now have a public method for this purpose, so we don't need to access the private revlog._partialmatch(). Also, I'll probably make some changes to resolvehexnodeidprefix() later, and I want those to be reflected by the id() predicate. Note that this breaks a test case, because we now resolve the prefix in the unfiltered repo and get an ambiguous lookup, which results in no revision being added to the revset. The test case was already documented to be broken even though it wasn't. It's important to note that {shortest(node)} already uses the unfiltered repo, so we're not going to break people who get the prefix from there. I think we may not want to ever use shortest() in the filtered repo. It seems unlikely to be enough of a win to matter much. For example, in my hg repo, it would save me only 0.2 hex digits. In another repo that only I modify, it saves a little more, but it's still only 0.29 hex digits. It seems unlikely that people will prune enough commits that only 1/16 of the commits are visible (which is what it would take a to save a single hex digit). Instead, I'm working on another approach: allow ambiguous matches to be disambiguated within a user-specified revset. Whether or not that pans out, I hope we're okay with this little change in behavior for now and we can decide what to do about it later. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3311

WiX installer source files
==========================

The files in this folder are used by the thg-winbuild [1] package
building architecture to create a Mercurial MSI installer.   These files
are versioned within the Mercurial source tree because the WXS files
must kept up to date with distribution changes within their branch.  In
other words, the default branch WXS files are expected to diverge from
the stable branch WXS files.  Storing them within the same repository is
the only sane way to keep the source tree and the installer in sync.

The MSI installer builder uses only the mercurial.ini file from the
contrib/win32 folder, the contents of which have been historically used
to create an InnoSetup based installer.  The rest of the files there are
ignored.

The MSI packages built by thg-winbuild require elevated (admin)
privileges to be installed due to the installation of MSVC CRT libraries
under the C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS folder.  Thus the InnoSetup installers may
still be useful to some users.

To build your own MSI packages, clone the thg-winbuild [1] repository
and follow the README.txt [2] instructions closely.  There are fewer
prerequisites for a WiX [3] installer than an InnoSetup installer, but
they are more specific.

Direct questions or comments to Steve Borho <steve@borho.org>

[1] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild
[2] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild/src/tip/README.txt
[3] http://wix.sourceforge.net/