contrib/wix/README.txt
author Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:37:23 +0200
changeset 11963 7c3aa579d98a
parent 10503 bbf22812e8ad
child 17251 98166640b356
permissions -rw-r--r--
parendelta: fix computation of base rev (fixes issue2337) Refactor revlog._addrevision() and put the correct base rev in the parent-delta case: base(rev) should always be equal to the first full snapshot that is needed by the delta chain, in both parent-delta and tip-delta case. Before this fix, the base rev was in most case wrong (and in the case where p1 == nullid, this triggered the bug from issue2337). This means that repositories converted to parent-delta earlier are corrupted and needs to be reconverted.

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 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/