Why is Bazaar Explorer not a separate app?

[Ian Clatworthy]

Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/11/26 Gordon Tyler <gordon at doxxx.net>:
>> I was contemplating the problem of the extraneous console window when one
>> starts Bazaar Explorer on Windows and as far as I can tell it's because it's
>> invoked through bzr.exe which is compiled as a console app instead of a
>> windowed app.
>>
>> That led me to wonder why Bazaar Explorer is a bzr plugin instead of its own
>> separate app?
> 
> I think someone should just try doing it.
> 
>>From rusty memory there is a pythonw.exe which is not marked as a
> console application.  It might be interesting to run 'pythonw
> c:\.....\bzr explorer' and see what happens.

Alexander has the details on what's blocking this. IIRC, it's because
some parts of bzr still write to stdout directly, rather than via
self.outf, and that means???

Alexander?

Ian C.