Windows support

[John Arbash Meinel]

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DeeJay wrote:
> Nearly a year ago, 4th Dec 2007 to be precise, I had reason to

...

> But there seems to be no reliable release mechanism for Windows
> .exe installers. [As of the time of writing there is no installer for
> Bazaar 1.8, which is now nearly 2 weeks old.] And the availability
> of installers for RC releases is unpredictable. If we can't install
> RC code, how can we give you feedback on its quality?

Mark Hammond is the one who has been polishing the standalone bzr
installer, integrating TortoiseBzr, etc. Unfortunately he took a
vacation for about 1 month recently, and we haven't gotten his knowledge
about how to build everything transferred over to another person yet.

We also recently set up a shared windows machine, which is where we plan
on getting the windows builds set up. We have the machine, and the
ability to build is about 8/10ths done. The problem is that it is a
64-bit machine running the free version of MSVC9 which doesn't build for
a 64-bit platform. Further complicating it is that you can only really
build for python 2.6 with VC9 because <2.5 is built using MSVC7 and MS
compilers ship a new runtime with every version, so they don't like to
compile anything compatible with another version of the compiler.

I can go ahead and create the python installers here, but I don't have
things set up to create the all-in-one.


> 
> If the online Survey is to be believed Windows users are
> predominant in the Bzr user community, so it seems odd
> that the core team don't appear to have the ability to build
> and test releases for that platform?

We do, we had just been relying on Mark and he took a vacation. We do
have other options, but sometimes we just lose track of it.

> 
> As specific observations that might be addressed:
> See the page http://bazaar-vcs.org/WindowsDownloads.
> If you follow the instructions in the first block of text to
> "Choose the most recent bzr-setup-*.exe from the download page"
> at the time of writing this will get an RC release that has since been
> corrected and superceded by a full point release - albeit not as a .exe
> 
> And in the next block of text, about python-based installers,
> the similar advice to
> "Choose the most recent bzr-setup-*.exe from the download page"
> is downright wrong, since the python-based installers don't have
> 'setup' in their names!
> 

Its a wiki, if there is incorrect information, you have all of our
approval to make changes to make it correct.

John
=:->

> DJ
> Leicester, UK
> 
> 

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