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contrib: comment out the 64-bit py38 dependency installation on Windows Not sure what is going on here, but it appears to not install py3.8 x64 in the usual `C:\hgdev` directory. The x32 installer works fine. I'm assuming this is a bug in this version of the installer, but didn't look into it too much. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11274
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
date Mon, 09 Aug 2021 19:36:26 -0400
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Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.