packaging: remove hg.exe.local file <exe>.local files are used by Windows to set up DLL redirection. But these files are ignored if you embed an application manifest in your binary, which we do. So the existence of this file serves no purpose. So we remove it. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7160

packaging: stage installed files for Inno Previously, the Inno installer maintained its own mapping of source files to install location. (We have to maintain a similar mapping in the WiX installer.) Managing the explicit file layout for Windows packages is cumbersome and redundant. Every time you want to change the layout you need to change N locations. We frequently forget to do this and we only find out when people install Mercurial from our packages at release time. This commit starts the process of consolidating and simplifying the logic for managing the install layout on Windows. We introduce a list of install layout rules. These are simply source filenames (which can contain wildcards) and destination paths. The Inno packaging code has been updated to assemble all files into a staging directory that mirrors the final install layout. The list of files to add to the installer is derived by walking this staging directory and dynamically emitting the proper entries for the Inno Setup script. I diffed the file layout before and after this commit and there is no difference. Another benefit of this change is that it facilitates easier testing of the Windows install layout. Before, in order to test the final install layout, you needed to build an installer and run it. Now, you can stage files into the final layout and test from there, without running the installer. This should cut down on overhead when changing Windows code. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7159

packaging: process Inno Setup files with Jinja2 I want to make the Inno Setup files dynamically generated. This will enable us to do things like automatically derive the set of files to be packaged instead of having to manually keep lists of files in sync across installers. As the first step towards this, we process the Inno Setup files with Jinja2. As part of this conversion, we had to escape syntax in mercurial.iss that conflicts with Jinja2. I also took the opportunity to include modpath.iss via Jinja2 instead of using Inno's preprocessor. This keeps the Python code a bit simpler. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7158

packaging: install and run Inno files in a build directory Upcoming commits will refactor the Windows installers so their content is dynamically derived. In preparation for this, we copy the Inno files into a new build directory and run them from there. This required changing some relative paths to work from a new directory level but is otherwise a pretty straightforward change. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7157