README.rst
author Manuel Jacob <me@manueljacob.de>
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 04:46:54 +0100
changeset 51374 54a75576287a
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
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hghave: add py312 and py313 While not required in the core test suite in the moment, these could be useful in the future or for extensions. For example, Python 3.12 removed distutils and it might make sense to differentiate based on that.

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.