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[Augie Fackler <durin42@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 25, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 
> On Sun 25 Sep 2011 03:59:49 PM CEST, Augie Fackler wrote:
>> (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.
> You should be able to install Dulwich without the C extensions. This 
> will make it run slower, but it should be an improvement over not 
> working at all.
> 
> You can do this by passing --pure to "setup.py install".
> 
> As for compiling with the extensions, I'm not sure either. I have had 
> reports that others have managed to get it to work when they had the 
> right compilers installed.

One other thought: I think TortoiseHg comes with Dulwich installed in its Python environment. Hopefully Steve can shed some light on that.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jelmer