Windows support

[Eugene Wee]

Well, to whoever built the Windows "lite" installer for 1.8, I can 
report that it is working as expected on MS Windows XP SP3. Does it 
require administrator permissions to install, though? I am still hoping 
for a zip archive version of the "lite" installer that allows Bazaar to 
be used out of the box without running an installer.

Thanks,
Eugene Wee

Adrian Wilkins wrote:
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> I'll wave my flag again ; building a windows release is not a
> significant effort, I have the relevant compiler configured and set up.
> 
> I build my own python-flavoured installers because historically I've
> wanted to distribute my own patches ; at them moment, obviously, I do it
> because the win32 releases lag behind the *nixoid releases.
> 
> I don't typically build the exe-flavoured installer, but I have most of
> the setup for it ; what I haven't had success with is the TBZR stuff ;
> I've got it to build, but it all crashed rather horribly and I wasn't
> encouraged to try again. But I'd like to ; I think my user base would
> find TBZR a boon, and again, Mr Hammond is a bottleneck (although a
> fine, noble gentleman, he is alas a single fine noble gentleman, which
> is no fault of his own).
> 
> I'm happy to build the installers for Python-flavoured, EXE-flavoured
> (light) distributions, and the TBZR distribution when I'm convinced it
> will actually work when I've built it.
> 
> Or alternately, I'm happy to contribute or set up a VM or some other
> device to let Canonical do it. IMHO there is a requirement to set up
> some kind of Windows machine that can run the unit tests in parallel to
> the main PQM (as some kind of RPC service, perhaps) anyway ; it would be
> a natural responsibility for this machine to take on building
> distributions as well.
> 
> The relevant compiler can still be had ; licenses for the newer Visual
> Studios entitle you to use all previous versions (as long as you can
> place install media, not hard if you've ever had an MSDN subscription).
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