looks ok now.

vadim, you added a "print" with your merge. can you correct it ?

The problem is that i have $HOME/bin and not $HOME/local/bin in my path, but if
you cannot retrieve the information with distutils it doesn't matter.

I can change my setup if i need to.

thanks

i have pushed the change, as it seems safe.

distutils does not make it possible to do what you need.

but i tried doing this:

mkdir $HOME/local
cd $HOME/local
ln -s ../bin
PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH
hg

and it looked in $HOME/local/etc/mercurial for me.

so i do not understand the problem you say you have.

ok, thank you. i will look into using distutils instead.

Perhaps you can make ~/local/etc/ a symlink to ~/etc/. Distutils looks like the
better channel to handle this. Either way, I feel Hg should support the custom
etc/hgrc location per the installation directory.

it doesn't work for me:
i install hg in ~/local, but ~/local/bin is a symlink to ~/bin
i think the solution should be distutils based.

ps: if i correctly understood matt and thomas, status=testing means that the
patch is in matt's repo and resolved that it is released.

+1 from me.

i am trying to install mercurial on a shared filesystem for many users and many
computers. mercurial now looks at ~/.hgrc and /etc/mercurial/hgrc and
/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d, but this is not useful if i am sharing an install over
nfs or smb with many computers.

it would be nice if mercurial finds its install directory using sys.argv[0] or
distutils. if it is installed in /nfs/foo/bin, it could look in
/nfs/foo/etc/mercurial as well as where it looks now.

without this, is really painful to share install stuff for many users and computers.