easy_install error on Windows 7

[Mads Kiilerich]

Daniel Serodio wrote, On 12/27/2009 04:55 AM:
> I'm trying to install Mercurial 1.4.1 on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit with
> ActivePython 2.6.2.2 and it's failing with:
>
> Running mercurial-1.4.1\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> c:\users\dserodio\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-cvgssa\mercurial-1.4.1\egg-dist-tmp-1yaa2u
> error: Setup script exited with error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
>    

I think http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download#Using_easy_install 
hints that a C compiler is needed - that seems to be the problem here.

In my opinion a binary package should be preferred, and if that fails 
then Mercurial should be installed from source. easy_install is never a 
good solution.

I updated the wiki some days ago, but didn't dare to state the 
conclusion that clearly there.

/Mads