Bazaar OS X Installer status

Erik Bågfors zindar at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 05:44:31 GMT 2007


Just have to say that this is so great. There is room for both a  
macports and a normal installer I believe.

/Erik

Sent from my iPhone

On 2007 dec 10, at 16.14, Szilveszter Farkas <szilveszter.farkas at gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> Hi,
>
> following Adam's status report, I'd like to inform you about another
> project that aims the OS X platform.
>
> Programs for the Mac are distributed via disk images (DMGs), that
> contain either a representation of an application (.app) or an  
> installer
> (.mpkg). I chose the second way to go, so we can create modular
> installers (the user can chose which plugins s/he wants to install).
>
> I've created such an installer for RC2, which bundles two dependencies
> as well: PyCrypto and Paramiko (if you already have them on your  
> system,
> you can unselect them if you customize the install process). Other
> plugins will follow (unfortunately some of them are not trivial to
> build, since OS X 10.5 ships with Subversion 1.4.4 which isn't patched
> to be compatible with bzr-svn).
>
> Planned plugins: bzrtools, bzr-svn, bzr-rebase, extmerge, qbzr. Most  
> of
> them are still under investigation (e.g. bzr-svn needs a custom svn
> build), but I'm open to any suggestions.
>
> All the dependencies were built on OS X 10.5 (Leopard - built-in  
> Python
> 2.5.1). I used Pyrex to build Bazaar (I suppose it's good to compile
> those files because of performance reasons) for both i386 and ppc
> architectures, so there shouldn't be a problem on PowerPC machines (if
> you encounter anything, please report it, because I don't have  
> access to
> a PPC machine).
>
> You can grab a prototype of the disk image here:
> http://phanatic.hu/bzr/mac/Bazaar-1.0-RC2-OSX10.5-proto3.dmg
>
> Screenshot for the curious non-Mac people:
> http://phanatic.hu/bzr/mac/bazaar-dmg-prototype-docs.png
>
> As you can see, I've customized the disk image icon, and the folder
> background as well, so it looks more sexy... I mean user-friendly :)  
> The
> whole documentation is included in the disk image in HTML format.
>
> The whole process of building the modules, binaries, installer, and  
> the
> disk image will be put on the wiki in a few days.
>
> Regards,
> Szilveszter / phanatic
>



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