README.rst
author Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>
Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:45:12 +0100
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tests: use simple mock smtp server instead of deprecated asyncore smtpd test-patchbomb-tls.t would fail with: .../hg/tests/dummysmtpd.py:6: DeprecationWarning: The asyncore module is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.12. The recommended replacement is asyncio import asyncore .../hg/tests/dummysmtpd.py:8: DeprecationWarning: The smtpd module is deprecated and unmaintained and will be removed in Python 3.12. Please see aiosmtpd (https://aiosmtpd.readthedocs.io/) for the recommended replacement. import smtpd The recommended migration path to the standalone asiosmtpd would be overkill. The tests do not need a full smtp server - we can just use a very simple mock hack to preserve the existing test coverage.

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.