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thirdparty: vendor tomli The next commit will introduce a .toml file to abstract configitems away from Python. Python 3.11 has a toml read-only library (`tomllib`), which gives us a way out of vendoring eventually. For now, we vendor the backport, specifically version 1.2.3 which is still compatible with Python 3.6.
author Raphaël Gomès <rgomes@octobus.net>
date Mon, 23 Jan 2023 17:11:42 +0100
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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.