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This is a question is about system requirements for Mercurial on Windows machines, specifically Windows 7 vs Windows Server OSs.

[NOTE:] Kiln extends Mercurial. The above question arose while attempting to install Kiln where I found that Kiln requires:

  • Windows 2003 Server SP2 or later, Windows 2008 Server, and Windows 2008 Server R2 (sorry; Itanium not supported)
  • Microsoft SQL Server with Full-Text Search (2005, 2008, or 2008 Express)
  • Microsoft IIS 6.0 and later
  • Please do not run Kiln or the FogBugz/Kiln bundle in a virtual machine. Since Kiln is an extremely disk-heavy application; performance will suffer!

Given the requirements listed above, and unable to find any list of requirements on the Mercurial website, I am unsure if any such similar requirements/dependencies exist for installing Mercurial without Kiln.

UPDATE: Mercurial does not seem to have any of the requirements listed above for Kiln. The answer is that Mercurial will install and run on a standard Windows 7 install.

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Question reopened with edits to hopefully make it less rant-like and more focused on the problem at hand. In general, tool-related questions should go to Stack Overflow, but this one seems relatively conceptual (and an SO mod suggested it would not be well-received there). – Anna Lear♦ Aug 31 '11 at 17:40
@Anna I’ve reedited the question and shifted the focus from Windows Server to Windows 7. I believe this requires less effort to understand and would be more search engine friendly(if people have questions about Windows 7, they’re going to be searching under that phrase). After these edits I would say this is a question about Mercurial’s support for Windows 7. Given the current edits, It does seem to me to belong on SO. If it is clearly out of place here, I will not take issue with it being moved or even removed. Thank you. – user179700 Sep 2 '11 at 1:21

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You can run Mercurial on Windows 7.

Personally, I would just use bitbucket unless you've got a very slow connection.

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I edited your answer to pull the Windows Server part (as the question is about Windows 7) and the part about Git as it became tangential to my question and I've now removed the Git reference. Feel free to expand or reedit (but I didn’t want anyone to downvote you in the meantime for my changes. – user179700 Sep 2 '11 at 1:10
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Both options would generally work just as well on win7 -- they are really IIS7 apps, server 2008 and win7 are pretty identical until you start to talk about concurrent requests. – Wyatt Barnett Sep 2 '11 at 11:59
agreed, but as my question no longer mentions Git, I didn't want you to get downmarks for mentioning it (and you know how quick some around here are to do so). As to why Kiln requires a server version, I have no idea. – user179700 Sep 2 '11 at 14:42
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The key part is "until you start to talk about concurrent requests" -- the server SKUs allow more than 10 simultaneous http requests through IIS. There are also perhaps licensing issues. – Wyatt Barnett Sep 2 '11 at 16:17

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