bzr 1.8 release plans

[Martin Pool]

The headline news for releases is: 1.8 is frozen and will be available
soon, and the review queue is growing and we should do reviews and
land things that are reviewed - or otherwise attach the code to a bug
and remove it from the review queue.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:17 AM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:

>> bzr 1.8rc1 came out last Tuesday.  I'm trying to get the Windows
>> packages built on a Windows virtual server, and am having some trouble
>> getting distutils to properly work with the x64 compiler.

OK, so I have now got it to build python-based installers, so I'll
proceed with the source and PPA releases.

>>
>> (I have a copy of Visual Studio Express, and the Windows SDK, which
>> together should provide an x64 compiler.  However, the vcvarsall.bat
>> script called by distutils just can't seem to find it.)
>
> What version of VSE? The problem is that distutils only likes to build
> with the identical copy of the compiler. So generally it wants you to
> use Visual Studio 2003. And IIRC, it isn't available from Microsoft
> anymore. (There are a couple 3rd-party sources that you can find with a
> google search.)
>
> I'm also a little concerned about a 64bit platform, but mostly as just
> another variable that we have to look out for.

Yes, me too.  For some reason I couldn't install a 32-bit python on
the first attempt, and using a 64-bit one caused a lot of trouble
building everything else.  With the 32 bit python, it builds ok using
MS VS Express.

> I'm planning to do 1.8 final tomorrow, at least as a source release
>> and into the PPA, and then get Windows installers working.
>>
>
> So... The proper standalone installer can only be properly built by Mark
> Hammond at this point. I can certainly issue a "make installer" on this
> machine, but I don't know the exact configuration he has. Because he
> puts bzr-svn, tbzr, qbzr all in the right locations and at the right
> versions.

I see Alexander and Mark have written up quite a good (or at least
long ;-) document here <http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrWin32Installer> so
I'm going to work through that.

> I did go ahead and do the one-line fix to "from bzrlib import osutils"
> just to get 1.8rc1 python-based installers built, and I've uploaded
> them. They *do* include the compiled extensions, since I'm using mingw32
> rather than msvc at this point.

Thanks very much.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>