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+EasyMercurial
+=============
+
+EasyMercurial is a user interface for the Mercurial distributed
+version control system.
+
+EasyMercurial is intended to be:
+
+ * simple to teach and to learn
+ * indicative of repository state using a history graph representation
+ * recognisably close to normal command-line workflow for Mercurial
+ * consistent across platforms
+
+We are not trying to produce "the best" Mercurial client for any one
+purpose. We actively encourage users to move on to other clients as
+their needs evolve. The aim is simply to provide something accessible
+for beginners in small project groups working with a shared remote
+repository.
+
+The application is developed by Chris Cannam for SoundSoftware.ac.uk,
+based on the HgExplorer application by Jari Korhonen, and is published
+under the GPL.  See the file COPYING for license details.
+
+
+Building EasyMercurial
+======================
+
+EasyMercurial is written in C++ using the Qt4 toolkit.  On most
+platforms, you can build it by running "qmake" followed by "make".  Qt
+version 4.6 or newer is required.
+
+
+To run EasyMercurial
+====================
+
+Just run the EasyMercurial application that is produced by the build.
+You will of course also need to have Mercurial installed (version 1.7
+or newer).  If you want to use the EasyHg authentication extension,
+you will also need PyQt4 (the Python bindings for Qt4); you may also
+wish to install the python-crypto library for the password store.
+Finally, an external diff/merge utility is required, typically kdiff3.
+
+
+EasyMercurial is
+Copyright 2010 Jari Korhonen
+Copyright 2010-2011 Chris Cannam
+Copyright 2010-2011 Queen Mary, University of London
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