[MERGE] add SimpleXMLRPCServer in stanalone bzr.exe

[Guillermo Gonzalez]

Hi John,

I think the idea behind the patch was misundertood :)

This patch only adds SimpleXMLRPCServer.py to the stabdalone exe.

bzr-xmloutput stills need to be installed.

Cheers,

--
Guillermo

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:50 AM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
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> Guillermo Gonzalez wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> This patch include SimpleXMLRPCServer module in the standalone bzr.exe.
>>
>> This is needed to make xmloutput work under bzr.exe. Due to the amount
>> of users in win32 platforms using bzr.exe and bzr-eclipse, this should
>> make the setup of bzr-eclipse a lot easier.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> P.S: I want to thanks Mark for the help on how to build bzr.exe.
>>
>> --
>> Guillermo
>
> In concept, I'm against this patch. For practicality, I'm fine with it.
>
> BB:approve
>
> Generally, we just need a better answer for plugins that depend on modules
> that don't ship with the standalone installer. For example, we aren't going to
> bundle all of gtk because someone might want to install bzr-gtk. Especially,
> now that we are *already* bundling most of PyQt. Though again, we don't bundle
> it completely, so someone might write a plugin that needs extra modules from it.
>
> I would be okay with bundling all/most of the standard library. I think we use
> a huge portion of it, so there isn't a lot extra that we would end up pulling
> in. However, 3rd party libraries are still going to be an issue.
>
> We've talked about (in the past) adding a standard location to the search
> path. We already search C:\Program Files\Bazaar\plugins (IIRC) by default. We
> could include C:\Program Files\Bazaar\lib or something along those lines. Then
> plugins could install the libraries they need to be useful.
>
> Or alternatively, we could just try to improve the non-standalone install
> experience. So that you have a "chained" MSI installer. I know PyQt does it
> (it will install mingw for you if you ask). I actually really prefer that
> route, as it also helps the people who are *upgrading*. I know I've mentioned
> it to Mark Hammond, though he is more focused on other things now.
>
> Anyway, I won't block this going in, but I don't see us doing workarounds for
> every plugin that might want to be installed with standalone bzr. Right now, I
> feel like standalone bzr is not the right path to what we want long term.
>
> John
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