README.rst
author Manuel Jacob <me@manueljacob.de>
Thu, 02 Jun 2022 04:39:49 +0200
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py3: don’t subscript socket.error On Python 2, socket.error was subscriptable. On Python 3, socket.error is an alias to OSError and is not subscriptable. The except block passes the exception to self.send_error(). This fails on both Python 2 (if it was executed) and Python 3, as it expects a string. Getting the attribute .strerror works on Python 2 and Python 3, and has the same effect as the previous code on Python 2.

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.