annotate contrib/wix/README.txt @ 35816:f6ca1e11d8b4 stable

revset: evaluate filesets against each revision for 'file()' (issue5778)

After f2aeff8a87b6, the fileset was evaluated to a set of files against the
working directory, and then those files were applied against each revision.  The
result was nonsense.  For example, `hg log -r 'file("set:exec()")'` on the
Mercurial repo listed revision 0 because it has the `hg` script, which is
currently +x.  But that bit wasn't applied until revision 280 (which
'contains()' properly indicates).

This technique was borrowed from checkstatus(), which services adds(),
modifies(), and removes(), so it seems safe enough.  The 'r:' case is explicitly
assigned to wdirrev, freeing up rev=None to mean "re-evaluate at each revision".
The distinction is important to avoid behavior changes with `hg log set:...`
(test-largefiles-misc.t and test-fileset-generated.t drop current log output
without this).  I'm not sure what the right behavior for that is (1fd352aa08fc
explicitly enabled this behavior for graphlog), but the day before the release
isn't the time to experiment.

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 <[e-mail]>

[1] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild
[2] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild/src/tip/README.txt
[3] http://wix.sourceforge.net/