localrepo: reinstate localrepo.parents with a deprecation warning The function was dropped in 3fe8cb40c9c5. This API drop brokes three of my extensions including some critical to my workflow like tortoisehg. Lets mark this API for death and give people time to fix their code.

bookmark: deprecate 'bmstore.write' method This function does not collaborate with the transaction and must disappear. As we have likely a lot of third party users, we make it deprecated to let them some time to upgrade their code. Thanks goes to Laurent Charignon for cleanup the last remains of the 'write' method.

ui: add a 'deprecwarn' helper to issue deprecation warnings As discussed on the list, we are adding an official way to keep old API around for a short time in order to help third party developer to catch up. The deprecated API will issue developer warning (issued by default during test runs) to warn extensions authors that they need to upgrade their code without instantaneously breaking tool chains and normal users. The version is passed as an explicit argument so that developer think about it and a potential future script can automatically check for it. This is not build as a decorator because accessing the 'ui' instance will likely be different each time. The message is also free form because deprecated API are replaced in a variety of ways. I'm not super happy about the final rendering of that message, but this is a developer oriented warning and I would like to move forward.

ui: add a 'stacklevel' argument to 'develwarn' This allows helper functions (like deprecation warning) to prepare a devel warning for higher up in the stack. The argument is named after the one in the Python's 'warning,warn' function.

import-checker: tell which symbol causes "direct symbol import" This would be sometimes useful to understand why import-checker.py complains about it.

import-checker: allow absolute imports of sub modules from local packages Before this patch, import-checker.py didn't know if a name in ImportFrom statement are module or not. Therefore, it complained the following example did "direct symbol import from mercurial". # hgext/foo.py from mercurial import hg This patch reuses the dict of local modules to filter out sub-module names.

manifest: use 't' for tree manifest flag We currently use 'd' to indicate that a manifest entry is a directory. Let's switch to 't', since that's not a valid hex digit and therefore easier to spot in the raw manifest data. This will break any existing repos with tree manifests, but it's still an experimental feature and there are probably only a few test repos in existence with 'd' flags.

test: update the docstring of 'test-devel-warnings.t' extension We are testing more than just locks now.

setup.py: don't rewrite @LIBDIR@ when creating wheels This is necessary to produce wheels that install properly. More details are captured in an in-line comment. After this patch, produced wheels can be installed via `pip install` and appear to "just work," including on Windows.

setup.py: attempt to build and install hg.exe on Windows Currently, packaging Mercurial on Windows will produce a Scripts\hg Python script and a Scripts\hg.bat batch script. The py2exe distribution contains a hg.exe which loads a Python interpretter and invokes the "hg" Python script. Running a exe directly has benefits over batch scripts because batch scripts do things like muck around with command arguments. This patch implements a custom "build_scripts" command which attempts to build hg.exe on Windows. If hg.exe is built, it is marked as a "script" file and installed into the Scripts\ directory on Windows. Since hg.exe is redundant and better than hg.bat, if hg.exe is built, hg.bat is not installed. Since some environments don't support compiling C programs, we treat hg.exe as optional and catch failures building it. This is not ideal. However, I reckon most Windows users will not be installing Mercurial from source: they will get it from the MSI installer or via `pip install Mercurial`, which will download a wheel that has hg.exe in it. So, I don't think this is a big deal.