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How does mercurial work without Python installed?

I have Mercurial 1.3 installed on my Windows 7 machine. I don't have python installed, but Mercurial seems to be OK with that.

How does it work?

Also, is it possible to force Mercurial run on IronPython and will it be compatible?

Thank you.

Solution

  • The Mercurial windows installer is packaged using py2exe. This places the python interpreter as a DLL inside of a file called "library.zip".

    On my machine, it is placed in "C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\library.zip"

    This zip file also contains the python libraries that are required by mercurial.

    For a detailed description of how mercurial is packaged for windows, see the developer page describing building windows installer.