win binary and hgext

[Patrick Drechsler]

"Lee Cantey" <lcantey at gmail.com> writes:

> On 7/13/07, Patrick Drechsler <patrick at pdrechsler.de> wrote:
>> Where is hgext?
>
> It's actually inside library.zip.  

Thanks for the info. I was not able to unpack the file with Windows
default unzipping utility or 7ZIP. Which archiving tool should I use
to unpack this file?

> I have a note to myself about looking at moving it outside but I
> haven't had a chance to look at it yet.
>
>> Workaround: I compiled Mercurial from source on a GNU/Linux
>> box. Then I copied the hgext folder to C:\Documents and
>> Settings\patrick\hgext. This seems to work.
>
> Since you can put extensions anywhere and specify the path to them
> that should surely work.

OK, so at least I was on the right track.

Thanks again,

Patrick
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