Windows-related ideas for bzr

[Alexander Belchenko]

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Andrew Voznytsa пишет:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alexander Belchenko [mailto:bialix at ukr.net]
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:41 PM
>> To: Andrew Voznytsa
>> Cc: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
>> Subject: Re: Windows-related ideas for bzr
>>
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>> Andrew Voznytsa пишет:
>>> At some point I'm planning to play with MSI. As learning course I may
>>> implement MSI installer for bazaar. It shouldn't be too hard.
>>> http://wix.sourceforge.net looks like good candidate for MSI building.
>> Actually, support for creating MSI-based installers for python modules
>> and packages is already built-in in Python 2.5. It needs only small
>> changes
>> to Bazaar codebase:
>>
>> === modified file 'Makefile'
>> - --- Makefile    2007-06-06 07:57:00 +0000
>> +++ Makefile    2007-06-06 09:17:24 +0000
>> @@ -148,6 +148,9 @@
>>  python-installer: docs
>>         python setup.py bdist_wininst --install-script="bzr-win32-bdist-
>> postinstall.py" -d .
>>
>> +python-msi: docs
>> +       python setup.py bdist_msi --install-script="bzr-win32-bdist-
>> postinstall.py" -d .
>> +
>>
>>  # clean on win32 all installer-related files and directories
>>  clean-win32:
>>
>> === modified file 'setup.py'
>> - --- setup.py    2007-06-06 07:57:00 +0000
>> +++ setup.py    2007-06-06 09:16:59 +0000
>> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
>>      #    Extension("bzrlib.modulename", ["bzrlib/foo.pyx"], libraries =
>> []))
>>  command_classes['build_ext'] = build_ext
>>
>> - -if 'bdist_wininst' in sys.argv:
>> +if ('bdist_wininst' in sys.argv) or ('bdist_msi' in sys.argv):
>>      import glob
>>      # doc files
>>      docs = glob.glob('doc/*.htm') + ['doc/default.css']
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, MSI or eggs(?) don't like bzr version info:
> 
> Please read http://doc.astro-wise.org/distutils.version.html
> 
> It seems that 'right' version should looks like 0.17.0a0
> 
> I guess 'a'/'b' suffix in StrictVersion stands for Alpha/Beta.
> 
> So 0.17.0a0 should be read as 0.17.0 Alpha 0.

It means that our convention about versioning should be adjusted
for MSI installer:

dev -> a (alpha)
rc -> b (beta)

> To make it clear (for me) - does this patch allows to generate MSI package
> for bzr.exe?

Nope. This patch only about python-based installer (installing python sources
for existing Python installation).

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