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rust-cpython: mark all PyLeaked methods as unsafe Unfortunately, these methods can be abused to obtain the inner 'static reference. The simplest (pseudo-code) example is: let leaked: PyLeaked<&'static _> = shared.leak_immutable(); let static_ref: &'static _ = &*leaked.try_borrow(py)?; // PyLeakedRef::deref() tries to bound the lifetime to itself, but // the underlying data is a &'static reference, so the returned // reference can be &'static. This problem can be easily fixed by coercing the lifetime, but there are many other ways to achieve that, and there wouldn't be a generic solution: let leaked: PyLeaked<&'static [_]> = shared.leak_immutable(); let leaked_iter: PyLeaked<slice::Iter<'static, _>> = unsafe { leaked.map(|v| v.iter()) }; let static_slice: &'static [_] = leaked_iter.try_borrow(py)?.as_slice(); So basically I failed to design the safe borrowing interface. Maybe we'll instead have to add much more restricted interface on top of the unsafe PyLeaked methods? For instance, Iterator::next() could be implemented if its Item type is not &'a (where 'a may be cheated.) Anyway, this seems not an easy issue, so it's probably better to leave the current interface as unsafe, and get broader comments while upstreaming this feature.
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Requirements

Building the Inno installer requires a Windows machine.

The following system dependencies must be installed:

Building

The packaging.py script automates the process of producing an Inno installer. It manages fetching and configuring the non-system dependencies (such as py2exe, gettext, and various Python packages).

The script requires an activated Visual C++ 2008 command prompt. A shortcut to such a prompt was installed with Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7. From your Start Menu, look for Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler Package for Python 2.7 then launch either Visual C++ 2008 32-bit Command Prompt or Visual C++ 2008 64-bit Command Prompt.

From the prompt, change to the Mercurial source directory. e.g. cd c:\src\hg.

Next, invoke packaging.py to produce an Inno installer. You will need to supply the path to the Python interpreter to use.:

$ python3.exe contrib\packaging\packaging.py \
    inno --python c:\python27\python.exe

Note

The script validates that the Visual C++ environment is active and that the architecture of the specified Python interpreter matches the Visual C++ environment and errors if not.

If everything runs as intended, dependencies will be fetched and configured into the build sub-directory, Mercurial will be built, and an installer placed in the dist sub-directory. The final line of output should print the name of the generated installer.

Additional options may be configured. Run packaging.py inno --help to see a list of program flags.

MinGW

It is theoretically possible to generate an installer that uses MinGW. This isn't well tested and packaging.py and may properly support it. See old versions of this file in version control for potentially useful hints as to how to achieve this.