Windows support

[Alexey Stukalov]

+1

Hey, Bazaar is used in more places than you image! :)

WBR,
  Alexey


DeeJay-3 wrote:
> 
> Nearly a year ago, 4th Dec 2007 to be precise, I had reason to
> write to this list
> 
> "Overall, it still seems to me that Windows is a bit of a second-class
> citizen: for instance, much of the documentation does not acknowledge
> Windows, and we seem to be reliant on one volunteer [to whom many
> thanks] for packaging the Windows installer. And if I encounter a problem
> I don't want to be told to use another OS! Do the core Bazaar developers,
> testers, documentors and maintainers have access to a Windows system
> to reinforce their efforts? If not, should they have?"
> 
> This was acknowledged, positively, by Ian Clatworthy.
> 
> Have things changed much in the last year?
> 
> I accept that if Bzr is OS-neutral then Windows doesn't
> need to be specifically acknowledged.
> 
> I am pleased to see case-sensitivity on Windows being discussed
> again.
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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 corrected and superceded by a full point release - albeit not as a .exe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!
> 
> DJ
> Leicester, UK
> 
> 
> 

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