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contrib/wix/README.txt
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:56:10 -0800
changeset 36856 1f7d9024674c
parent 17251 98166640b356
child 41846 765f836a9484
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hgweb: make parsedrequest part of wsgirequest This is kind of ugly. But an upcoming commit will teach parsedrequest about the input stream. Because the input stream is global state and can't be accessed without side-effects, we need to take actions to ensure that multiple consumers don't read from it independently. The easiest way to do this is for one object to hold a reference to both items having access to the input stream so that when a copy is made, we can remove the attribute from the other instance. So we create our parsed request instance from the wsgirequest constructor and hold a reference to it there. This is better than our new type holding a reference to wsgirequest because all the code for managing access will be temporary and we shouldn't pollute parsedrequest with this ugly history. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2770

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/
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