Run Mercurial as Windows Service

[Rafael Villar Burke]

Ignacio Alvarez wrote:
> I'm a Windows programmer and I've been using Mercurial for only a few 
> weeks, but I've liked it so much that I've switched our team of 
> Windows programmers from Subversion to Mercurial.
>
> The only real problem with the switch was the lack of a Windows GUI 
> and shell integration. That's why I wrote a simple shell extension to 
> give access to the Mercurial commands I've found most useful:
>
> http://xentient.com/images/SNAG-00001.png
It looks great.
> We've been using the shell extension for the past two weeks with 
> Mercurial 0.9.3.
>
> I also created an installer that packages the shell extension, 
> Mercurial, Qct (for doing commits), and KDiff3 (for diffs, merging). 
> The installer only asks for the committer user name and email and 
> takes care of setting up everything.
>
> For shared centralized repositories, we're using SSH to access 
> Mercurial running on a Linux server.
>
> If anyone is interested in the shell extension, we're open to 
> releasing it to the public.
Could you set up a public Mercurial repo with the sources? ;)
Having that and some simple text commenting the dependencies and 
toolchain would probably get some other people into looking at it.

Also, having the installer asking for that basic configuration info can 
be an useful addition to the current win32 installer.

Regards, and thanks for sharing this information,

Rafael Villar Burke