bzr-git and Dulwich

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Russel Winder wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 12:50 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 07:20:03AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
>>     
>>> I got as far as checking out the bzr-git plugin, and got a Git clone of
>>> the master version of Dulwich (the Bazaar branch is a mere mirror :-( ,
>>> but now I am stuck.  There appear to be no "idiots guide to
>>> installation" instructions on how to install Dulwich either on the
>>> webpage (http://samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/) or in a file in the
>>> repository -- it seems you have to either divine or guess the answer.  I
>>> suspect the Makefile rather than the setup.py is a hint, but it would be
>>> better to have explicit instruction.
>>>       
>> It works the same way as for 99% of all other python packages out there. Run either:
>>     
>
> But isn't it always the 1% that completely destroys you filestore
> cleanliness.
>   
I don't see how more instructions help anything there. They'll just tell
you to run "./setup.py install" anyway, even if that script does nasty
things.
>> "./setup.py install"
>>
>> or
>>
>> "make install"
>>     
>
> I am still thinking that distutils is not the best
> installation/management system in the world.
>
> Really needs a deb file for Debian and Ubuntu.
>   
Dulwich is in Debian sid/testing and Ubuntu karmic.

Cheers,

Jelmer