Call for volunteers - improved installation experience on OS X, Windows, Linux/Unix

[Erik Bågfors]

On Dec 7, 2007 7:20 AM, Szilveszter Farkas <szilveszter.farkas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I got as far as learning how to use the package creator that apple
> > provides, and created a small bzr package from the bzr tar file. I then
> > downloaded svn and bzr-svn and started on that. And that's as far as I got.
>
> I used something else to produce an Installer.app package: there's a
> setuptools module called bdist_mpkg (I had to patch it to get it work
> under Leopard, but that patch got already accepted by upstream). It
> generated an .mpkg structure that only holds bzrlib itself + the bzr
> executable. I still need to find a way to include recommended
> dependencies (like paramiko) - by either packaging them separately, or
> bundling them with the Bazaar .mpkg.

I've read how to do this using apples package maker software. So I'll try this.

I'm doing this for two reasons...
1) I think we need it for bzr
2) I want to learn how to do apple package installers.

So for me, using apples own package maker is kind of the point. :)

> > I think I will spend some time on this on Sunday.
> >
> > I'll get back to you.
>
> If you think we could collaborate, don't hesitate to contact me (I'll
> try to be online on #bzr during the weekend, so we can discuss things).
>

Absolutely.  I kind of want to learn how to do this, so my current
plan is that I'd like to get bzr + paramiko + svn-libs + svn python
libs + bzr-svn + bzrtools in a installer.  With options on what to
install when you install it. You should be able to select or deselect
bzr-svn for example.

I think I'll get there on Sunday. The plan is to do a very simple
shell script to do the job.  I'll add that to a bzr branch that you
can get and we can collaborate that way.  When a new release is out,
update the script and rerun and we should have a new installer.

If I do, or don't, I'll bugg you on irc or mail anyway :)

/Erik

ps.
For extra credit..
1) Do we want to do a universal installer?
2) What I'm planning on is for leopard only, since it includes a
supported (by bzr) python.. if we want to create one for tiger, we
need to package python into it also. Do we want to do that?