setup: avoid attempting to invoke the system-wide hg.exe on Windows
On Windows, the executable in the current directory gets priority over anything
in $PATH (both for cmd.exe and MSYS). That means, the former code was launching
the local hg.exe instead of the system-wide one, if it was previously built. If
that failed, it then fell back to the local hg code, but run through python.exe.
I'm not sure what it is about
ef7119cd4965, but that started throwing up a
messagebox that python37.dll couldn't be loaded. (And indeed, python37 is not
in $PATH by default.) Invoking the local hg via the current python avoids that.
$ cat > abortcommit.py <<EOF
> from mercurial import error
> def hook(**args):
> raise error.Abort(b"no commits allowed")
> def reposetup(ui, repo):
> repo.ui.setconfig(b"hooks", b"pretxncommit.nocommits", hook)
> EOF
$ abspath=`pwd`/abortcommit.py
$ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
> [extensions]
> mq =
> abortcommit = $abspath
> EOF
$ hg init foo
$ cd foo
$ echo foo > foo
$ hg add foo
mq may keep a reference to the repository so __del__ will not be
called and .hg/journal.dirstate will not be deleted:
$ hg ci -m foo
error: pretxncommit.nocommits hook failed: no commits allowed
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: no commits allowed
[255]
$ hg ci -m foo
error: pretxncommit.nocommits hook failed: no commits allowed
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: no commits allowed
[255]
$ cd ..