mercurial as wheel install

[anton]

Gregory Szorc wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 21:51 +0200, anton wrote:
>> > Hi I wanted to know
>> > if there will ba a whl installation
>> > packet for mercurial?
>>
>> Not until a Windows user makes it happen, no. Are you a Windows user?
> 
> 
> Anyone with the "wheel" package installed (`pip install wheel`) can
> produce wheels via `python setup.py bdist_wheel`. Can we ask our Windows
> packager to try producing wheels for the next release? Same goes for OS X
> as well.
> 
> Unfortunately, there are still some limitations in the wheel packaging /
> naming conventions to make wheel distribution on Linux a thing. But we
> shouldn't let one platform hold us back: wheels on N>0 platforms is better
> than no wheels.

Hi only for your information I tried:

 - "python setup.py bdist_wheel" and got an error 
    that wheel is not supported

 - "pip wheel ." in the dir where I extracted the 
   mercurial 3.4.2 source tar .. and this *worked*!
   It chreated a wheel which I could install with
   "pip install my-mercurial.whl" (dont remember the exact name)

I use:
 - win 7 64 bit
 - python 2.7.10 32bit
 - the actual setuptoos, pip, wheel packages are installed
 - I have visual studio 2008 installed (!)

so here it seems to work.
I use the hg command and it works :-)

Thanks for the hint.

Anton