URLError: <urlopen error >

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 17:49 +0000, Smith, DAVID wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Mackall [mailto:mpm at selenic.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:04 PM
> > To: Smith, DAVID
> > Cc: Augie Fackler; mercurial at selenic.com Mailing-list
> > Subject: RE: URLError: <urlopen error >
> > 
> > On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 16:11 +0000, Smith, DAVID wrote:
> > > Okay, this is where I'm a little lost.  I've got the Mercurial
> > > 2.0.0-rc installed for Windows, which has all the code compiled into
> > > library.zip.  I don't know how to get from that to code that I can
> > > modify and run.  Is there a way?
> > >
> > > On the server, we've got Python 2.6.6 installed, with the Mercurial
> > > for Python install, which has source code I can modify.  I can do
> > > that, but I don't see an install for that for the 2.0.0-rc version.
> > >
> > > So any advice about how to do this without fully building Mercurial
> > > for Windows?
> > 
> > I don't suppose you have a Linux box handy?
> > 
> 
> Not in India, where this is occurring - it's all Windows.  It could
> probably be done, but would take several days (to a week) to make it
> happen.

FYI, this discussion inspired me to build this:

http://markmail.org/message/fx5rqzyxo5ut6bic

..so Windows users won't be quite so challenged in these situations.

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