Updating Windows Installation Instructions

[Martin Pool]

On 19/10/05, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:

> I'd like to update this page (you probably mean this page:
> http://bazaar.canonical.com/Bzr/OnWindows). But at this moment bzr have
> bunch of small and big windows-related bugs, and in setup process also.

I've been bad about merging them in, because I kept meaning to do it
when I was on a windows machine and could test them directly as I
merged them.  But what I should really do is just recognize you're
maintaining the windows port, and simply merge them.  I apologize for
just dropping them.

I'm going back through the list now to pick up whatever is still
relevant.  If you could repost them, or put up a branch, I'd be very
grateful.

> I
> understand that at this development stage OS-compatibility is not main
> goal, but may be is worth to create short reference for developers about
> known OS-incompatibilities for reasons of future?

No, cross-platform compatability is a goal, we just haven't been good
about getting there yet.  If you could make such a list, say on the
wiki, then that may help us avoid this type of regression.  The real
fix would, as Andrew says, to get some kind of automatic regression
testing on Windows.

--
Martin