Python required?

[Lee Cantey]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, josef betancourt
<josef.betancourt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Small quibble.  On the main Mercurial page:  http://mercurial.selenic.com/
> the top right section states:
> Requirements Python 2.4 (get python)Is that really accurate?   If I download
> the binary version for Windows I don't need Python.  Now I don't remember if
> I had Python on my current system before Mercurial, and my statement is
> false.  Anyway, my point is, this can be a sort of turn off for someone who
> is not interested in installing another language into their Windows system. >

Agreed.  Reported as issue #11 on the website repository about a year
ago (http://bitbucket.org/segv/hg-website/issue/11/requirements-section-under-download-not).

Regards,
Lee