Bazaar 1.9 rc1-2 Windows installers

[John Whitley]

Hi John,

So far, so good with the new installer.  sftp is working, and I'm not  
getting the svn plugin errors anymore.  Unfortunately, I don't have  
any https branches to hand to test out cert support.

Thanks!
John Whitley

On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:23 PM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

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> Following the first round of feedback, I've created another all-in-one
> installer, which should be uploading now. It is
> "bzr-setup-1.9rc1-2.exe". In this installer, I should have fixed:
>
> 1) paramiko not being installed. (It turns out that setuptool's egg
> files are not compatible with py2exe, so you have to use "easy_install
> - -Z paramiko".)
>
> 2) libsvn_client-1.dll not being found. It seems that our current  
> build
> process does not find and copy these files into the installer. So I  
> went
> ahead and did it manually, but this is something we will need to fix  
> in
> a more permanent manner.
>
> 3) pyenchant is now also installed, which I believe adds spell- 
> checking
> to qbzr (such as qcommit).
>
> 4) Someone mentioned missing the option to install CA certificates. I
> think this is because I'm not bundling pycurl in the 1.9 installer. So
> it would be nice if people could try the new installer with https://
> urls, just to make sure our https support still works as expected.
>
> Thanks to those who gave feedback already on the installer (John  
> Whitley
> Eugene Wee, and Martin Pool specifically), and I look forward to the
> next round.
>
> John
> =:->
>
>
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> We have finally created another all-in-one Windows installer, which  
>> is
>> now available to download from:
>>  https://launchpad.net/bzr/1.9/1.9rc1
>>
>> We would appreciate people testing this installer (bzr- 
>> setup-1.9rc1.exe)
>> as it is the first time we have built the installer on the new shared
>> host. This should make future releases much easier to build, as  
>> putting
>> together the setup for the all-in-one installer actually requires  
>> many
>> preparation steps. (Windows dependencies are not a simple 'apt-get'  
>> away.)
>>
>> There has been one report that the installer starts to give errors  
>> until
>> the user reboots the machine. If possible, we would rather not  
>> require a
>> reboot. So if people could test, and report if a reboot was/wasn't
>> necessary, it would be very appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks for your assistance,
>> John
>> =:->
>>
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