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[Augie Fackler <durin42@xxxxxxxxx>]

(bcc: mpm, mercurial and hg-git groups, cc: dulwich-users)

On Sep 25, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Danny Tuppeny wrote:
> 
> (apologies if you see this twice - I wasn't in the hg-git list!)
> 
> 
> On 12 September 2011 05:03, Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>>> So the mercurial server's deprecated then?
>> 
>>> No, you've got it backwards: the git client is deprecated. Tell your
>>> friends.
> 
> 
> The git client is probably easier to install and make work :-P
> 
> I'm on Windows 7 64bit, and have Python 2.5.2 installed (for Google App
> Engine), and the latest Mercurial (from Windows installer).
> 
> I grabbed Dulwich (which is a tar.gz with no zip - grrr) and tried running
> "setup install" from a command line. It blew up with an error trying to
> compile C... I thought my VS 2010 install would have the required compilers
> :-(

I would think so too. Anyone over on dulwich-users got ideas here? I don't know a thing about Windows.

> With that failing, I decided to try easy_install. I found this
> page<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#downloads> and
> tried to run the 2.5 installer, and was told that I didn't have Python 2.5
> installed.
> 
> I had to give up. I'm making changes to a Git repo, so will probably have to
> install Git. I was trying to avoid that because I have Mercurial all set up
> as I like (inc working properly with my diff tools, etc.), and I didn't want
> the hassle of learning Git, configuring it all, etc. :-(