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tests: require Python 3.5+ in run-tests.py We change the version check logic to hard fail if running on <= 3.5.0. The branch for <3.5 has been deleted. And the >=3.5 branch block has been dedented. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12234
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
date Sun, 20 Feb 2022 11:57:59 -0700
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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.