Packaging
Guidelines for making Mercurial binary packages.
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This page is intended for developers.
1. Things to note
Don't enable any extensions by default
Install contrib/mergetools.hgrc so merge tools work
- Consider packaging the hgweb scripts and relevant items from contrib/
- Run the test suite on your platform
- List your package on the Downloads page
Keep up with our time-based releases
2. Make nightly builds available
Nightly builds help users give quick feedback on bugfixes. These should generally be made from the tip of the stable branch.
3. Stay in touch
Announcements of releases and code freezes are made on the Mercurial-packaging list.