Windows binaries for bzr-svn - don't need python-based installer

[Alexander Belchenko]

Paul Moore пишет:
> On 26/02/2008, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
>> Perhaps I should've clarified that a bit. What I meant is that I'm not
>> building these binaries and do not make any guarantees that they will be
>> available or updated in the future. However, this is also true for, e.g.
>> the OpenSuse binaries, so I don't think it's necessary to mention this
>> on the wiki.
>>
>> Kevin has done a great job maintaining the Windows binaries so far and I
>> hope he will continue to do so.
> 
> Ah, I'm sorry, I hadn't realised that the binaries were built by
> Kevin. I'd been working on the assumption that they were produced by
> you. Thanks to Kevin for producing them, in that case.
> 
>>> Would there be any possibility of having an "official" binary? We poor
>>> souls using Windows, without development tools and prerequisites
>>> available out of the box, do rely rather heavily on binary
>>> distributions...
>> What exactly do you mean by "official"? I can not guarantee
>> continuity of these binaries, but perhaps Kevin can.
> 
> I'm not really sure what I'd expect. The URL for the download is what
> surprised me, to be honest, and I doubt Kevin can do much about that
> :-)

Why not uploading binaries to the launchpad.net?

> 
> The section on the Windows binaries sould probably be moved from the
> "Requirements" section, to the "Packages" section (and to be honest,
> I'd put "Packages" above "Requirements", right after "Releases"). That
> might well be all it needs. A note on Kevin's page describing
> bzr-svn-0.4.7-svn-1.4.6-setup-0.exe (and confirming what versions of
> bzr it works with) might have helped, too.
> 
> Sorry if that's not very clear or helpful, there isn't anything
> specific I had a problem with - it's just that by the time I got to
> the download, I was expecting to have to do a lot of building of my
> own bits and pieces, and was bracing myself for more work than I
> really wanted. The fact that Kevin's installer just worked for me was
> a very pleasant surprise, in the end.
> 
> I hope this is of some use, and thanks again.
> Paul.
> 
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