bzr-git and Dulwich

[Russel Winder]

Jelmer,

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.

> "./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.

> as superuser.

That's the real irritating bit, non-super users cannot install stuff.

I have performed, so now have Dulwich installed.

-- 
Russel.
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