View source for Mercurial on Windows

Just a dumping ground for now; will get more structure later.

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Mercurial is part of [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites#MozillaBuild MozillaBuild] 1.3. [http://mercurial.berkwood.com/ Binary installers for Windows] exist; '''you want 1.0 or newer''', see [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mercurial_basics this link for more info].  I had problems with the latest 0.9.4+ snapshot. Now there are two other installers: 
[http://qct.sourceforge.net/Mercurial-BI.html Batteries Included] installer newly with [http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/ TortoiseHG] and the
[http://qct.sourceforge.net/Mercurial-NSI.html Python Approach] installer.
[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WindowsInstallers Some reasoning behind the different binary installers for Windows]. 

In general, things will just work (assuming the Mercurial dir is in your path); there are some oddities with line endings here and there (e.g. hg export will use DOS line endings in the generated patch, while MQ-generated patches don't).

If you want to make <tt>hg view</tt> work:
* [http://www.activestate.com/store/activetcl/download/ install ActiveTcl], and make sure you tell it to associate .tcl with ActiveTcl
* add the <tt>hgk</tt> extension to your list of extensions in C:\mozilla-build\hg\Mercurial.ini, e.g to your [extensions] block add the line:
 hgext.hgk =

* grab [http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew/raw-file/b43db44cd047/contrib/hgk hgk from here] (this is a link to a snapshot in the crew repo; there may be newer ones, but the Windows installer does not have hgk packaged).  Save this file somewhere in your path, and rename it to <tt>hgk.tcl</tt>. 
* in your Mercurial.ini, add:
 [hgk]
 path=C:\Users\vladimir\bin\hgk.tcl

and <tt>hg view</tt> should work.