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inno: script to automate building Inno installer The official Inno installer build process is poorly documented. And attempting to reproduce behavior of the installer uploaded to www.mercurial-scm.org has revealed a number of unexpected behaviors. This commit attempts to improve the state of reproducibility of the Inno installer by introducing a Python script to largely automate the building of the installer. The new script (which must be run from an environment with the Visual C++ environment configured) takes care of producing an Inno installer. When run from a fresh Mercurial source checkout with all the proper system dependencies (the VC++ toolchain, Windows 10 SDK, and Inno tools) installed, it "just works." The script takes care of downloading all the Python dependencies in a secure manner and manages the build environment for you. You don't need any additional config files: just launch the script, pointing it at an existing Python and ISCC binary and it takes care of the rest. The produced installer creates a Mercurial installation with a handful of differences from the existing 4.9 installers (produced by someone else): * add_path.exe is missing (this was removed a few changesets ago) * The set of api-ms-win-core-* DLLs is different (I suspect this is due to me using a different UCRT / Windows version). * kernelbase.dll and msasn1.dll are missing. * There are a different set of .pyc files for dulwich, keyring, and pygments due to us using the latest versions of each. * We include Tcl/Tk DLLs and .pyc files (I'm not sure why these are missing from the existing installers). * We include the urllib3 and win32ctypes packages (which are dependencies of dulwich and pywin32, respectively). I'm not sure why these aren't present in the existing installers. * We include a different set of files for the distutils package. I'm not sure why. But it should be harmless. * We include the docutils package (it is getting picked up as a dependency somehow). I think this is fine. * We include a copy of argparse.pyc. I'm not sure why this was missing from existing installers. * We don't have a copy of sqlite3/dump.pyc. I'm not sure why. The SQLite C extension code only imports this module when conn.iterdump() is called. It should be safe to omit. * We include files in the email.test and test packages. The set of files is small and their presence should be harmless. The new script and support code is written in Python 3 because it is brand new and independent code and I don't believe new Python projects should be using Python 2 in 2019 if they have a choice about it. The readme.txt file has been renamed to readme.rst and overhauled to reflect the existence of build.py. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6066
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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/