[PATCH] win32 installer for bzr 0.9: rev.2

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Mon Jul 31 04:07:12 BST 2006


On 28 Jul 2006, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:

> >We also have bzrlib/doc/api, which is intended for developers and  
> >contains some (very small) api documentation, which is run as  
> >doctests.  I think adding some developer documentation in doc/devel  
> >would be fine.
> >
> >However, this helpful document about how to make a win32 binary  
> >release, is probably only of interest to a few people at a time, and  
> >perhaps doesn't need to stay in sync with bzr releases.  
> 
> I think it should be in sync with releases, because this document refers
> to required libraries and their versions. So it needs to be updated with
> each release.

Well, then I think something like doc/devel/win32_packaging.txt would be
fine.

> >So it's  
> >probably perfectly happy on the wiki, unless you want to move it.   The 
> >page http://bazaar-vcs.org/ReleaseChecklist is similar and also  on the 
> >wiki.
> 
> I'm OK to have it on Wiki, just want to have some mention in bzr.dev
> source tree about existence of this document. May be in README? Or
> NEWS.developers is fine?

Probably in HACKING, e.g. 

  Making a release
  ----------------
 
  ...
  
  To build a win32 installer, see the instructions in
  doc/devel/win32_packaging.txt 

(or the wiki url, which ever)

-- 
Martin




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