[PATCH STABLE V2] windows: implement nlinks() using Python's ctypes (issue1922)

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 23:50 +0100, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> On 2011-01-26 22:31, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 17:56 +0100, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> >> Can we require Python >=2.5 (at least for Windows) for 1.8?
> > 
> > I'd rather keep the requirements in sync with the rest of the world.
> 
> Would it be ok to require that those users who want to stick with Python
> 2.4 on Windows (and who don't use one of the public well known binary
> installers of Mercurial which include Python) have to install ctypes
> instead of pywin32 for Mercurial 1.8?

Well pywin32 has only every been a (really strong) recommendation, so if
we swap that out for ctypes, sure.

Steve, how attached is Tortoise to pywin32?

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