contrib/wix/README.txt
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:41:46 +0200
changeset 31907 fb8c3bc27e87
parent 17251 98166640b356
child 41851 765f836a9484
permissions -rw-r--r--
obsolescence: add test case A-2 for obsolescence markers exchange About 3 years ago, in August 2014, the logic to select what markers to select on push was ported from the evolve extension to Mercurial core. However, for some unclear reasons, the tests for that logic were not ported alongside. I realised it a couple of weeks ago while working on another push related issue. I've made a clean up pass on the tests and they are now ready to integrate the core test suite. This series of changesets do not change any logic. I just adds test for logic that has been around for about 10 versions of Mercurial. They are a patch for each test case. It makes it easier to review and postpone one with documentation issues without rejecting the wholes series. This patch introduce case A-2: Two heads, only one of them pushed Each test case comes it in own test file. It help parallelism and does not introduce a significant overhead from having a single unified giant test file. Here are timing to support this claim. # Multiple test files version: # run-tests.py --local -j 1 test-exchange-*.t 53.40s user 6.82s system 85% cpu 1:10.76 total 52.79s user 6.97s system 85% cpu 1:09.97 total 52.94s user 6.82s system 85% cpu 1:09.69 total # Single test file version: # run-tests.py --local -j 1 test-exchange-obsmarkers.t 52.97s user 6.85s system 85% cpu 1:10.10 total 52.64s user 6.79s system 85% cpu 1:09.63 total 53.70s user 7.00s system 85% cpu 1:11.17 total

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/