[JIRA] (JENKINS-15385) Mercurial auto-installer does not work

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Jesse Glick commented on JENKINS-15385 Mercurial auto-installer does not work @cowwoc: wiki improvements always welcome, no need to ask permission! And of course if you come across a reliable source of Linux binary bundles please write it up. Generally the prebuilt binaries are provided as system packages which is not great for use from Jenkins. Another tricky aspect is the fact that a Python runtime is required, but might not be preinstalled on the OS. For a while I was looking at the effort to make Mercurial run in Jython, which would be greatly convenient for Jenkins slaves, but last I checked the performance was abysmal.

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