exewrapper: adapt for legacy HackableMercurial
We give up using CPython's PythonXX.lib import libraries (and Python.h), and
now "manually" call the LoadLibrary() / GetProcAddress() Windows API's instead.
If there is a "hg-python" subdirectory (the canonical directory name for
HackableMercurial's private Python copy) next to the hg.exe, we load the
pythonXX.dll from there (feeding an absolute path to LoadLibrary) and we set
Py_SetPythonHome() to that directory, so that the Python libraries are used
from there as well.
If there is no "hg-python" subdir found next to the hg.exe, we do not feed an
absolute path to LoadLibrary. This continues to allow to find a globally
installed Python DLL, as before this change - that is, without having to edit,
delete, rename, or configure anything.
Note that the hg.exe built is still bound to a *specific* major version of the
pythonXX.dll (e.g. python27.dll). What version it is, is inferred from the
version of the python interpreter that was used when calling setup.py. For
example
C:\python27_x86\python.exe setup.py build_hgexe -i --compiler=mingw32
builds a hg.exe (using the mingw32 tool chain) bound to (x86) Python 2.7. And
C:\python27_x86\python.exe setup.py build_hgexe -i
builds the same using the Microsoft C compiler/linker. (Note that the Microsoft
toolchain combined with x64 CPython can be used to build an x64 hg.exe.)
setup.py is changed to write the name of the pythonlib into the generated header
file "mercurial/hgpythonlib.h", which is #included by exewrapper.c. For a Python
2.7 build, it for example contains:
#define HGPYTHONLIB "python27"
exewrapper.c then uses HGPYTHONLIB for the name of the Python dll to load.
We don't want to track mercurial/hgpythonlib.h, so we add it to .hgignore.
Mercurial's internal web server, hgweb, can serve either a single
repository, or a tree of repositories. In the second case, repository
paths and global options can be defined using a dedicated
configuration file common to :hg:`serve`, ``hgweb.wsgi``,
``hgweb.cgi`` and ``hgweb.fcgi``.
This file uses the same syntax as other Mercurial configuration files
but recognizes only the following sections:
- web
- paths
- collections
The ``web`` options are thoroughly described in :hg:`help config`.
The ``paths`` section maps URL paths to paths of repositories in the
filesystem. hgweb will not expose the filesystem directly - only
Mercurial repositories can be published and only according to the
configuration.
The left hand side is the path in the URL. Note that hgweb reserves
subpaths like ``rev`` or ``file``, try using different names for
nested repositories to avoid confusing effects.
The right hand side is the path in the filesystem. If the specified
path ends with ``*`` or ``**`` the filesystem will be searched
recursively for repositories below that point.
With ``*`` it will not recurse into the repositories it finds (except for
``.hg/patches``).
With ``**`` it will also search inside repository working directories
and possibly find subrepositories.
In this example::
[paths]
/projects/a = /srv/tmprepos/a
/projects/b = c:/repos/b
/ = /srv/repos/*
/user/bob = /home/bob/repos/**
- The first two entries make two repositories in different directories
appear under the same directory in the web interface
- The third entry will publish every Mercurial repository found in
``/srv/repos/``, for instance the repository ``/srv/repos/quux/``
will appear as ``http://server/quux/``
- The fourth entry will publish both ``http://server/user/bob/quux/``
and ``http://server/user/bob/quux/testsubrepo/``
The ``collections`` section is deprecated and has been superseded by
``paths``.