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inno: stop shipping pywin32 Ancient versions of Mercurial relied on pywin32 and I suspect that's why we have this dependency. We also ship the "keyring" package, which has a dependency on "pywin32-ctypes" (providing the "win32ctypes" package). This is a stripped down version of pywin32 that doesn't have as many dependencies. Since we don't have a dependency on pywin32 and since pywin32 is a bit annoying to package, let's get rid of it. With this change, py2exe no longers picks up DLL dependencies on various UCRT DLLs (because we no longer have a .pyd file beloning to pywin32 which was pulling them in). So, we were able to remove code in support of the UCRT DLLs. .. bc:: The Windows Inno installers no longer ship the pywin32 package. This package was being bundled for historical reasons. Mercurial stopped using pywin32 several years ago and the disappearance of this package should not have any meaningful impact. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6067
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WiX installer source files
==========================

The files in this folder are used by the thg-winbuild [1] package
building architecture to create a Mercurial MSI installer. These files
are versioned within the Mercurial source tree because the WXS files
must kept up to date with distribution changes within their branch. In
other words, the default branch WXS files are expected to diverge from
the stable branch WXS files. Storing them within the same repository is
the only sane way to keep the source tree and the installer in sync.

The MSI installer builder uses only the mercurial.ini file from the
contrib/win32 folder.

The MSI packages built by thg-winbuild require elevated (admin)
privileges to be installed due to the installation of MSVC CRT libraries
under the C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS folder. Thus the InnoSetup installers may
still be useful to some users.

To build your own MSI packages, clone the thg-winbuild [1] repository
and follow the README.txt [2] instructions closely. There are fewer
prerequisites for a WiX [3] installer than an InnoSetup installer, but
they are more specific.

Direct questions or comments to Steve Borho <steve@borho.org>

[1] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild
[2] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild/src/tip/README.txt
[3] http://wix.sourceforge.net/