Breaking python2.4 compatibility for bzr-2.4

[Alexander Belchenko]

Wouter van Heyst пишет:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 23:45:12 +0100, Martin (gzlist) wrote:
>> On 21/04/2011, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>>> I would certainly like to hear your arguments. I couldn't come up with
>>> anything motivating for me. But if you have specific needs, you're
>>> certainly a valuable member of the community, and we want to make sure
>>> things work for you.
> 
> ....
> 
>> There are some 2.6 features I occasionally pine for, but as Alexander
>> mentions elsewhere in this thread, that then means the mess of a new C
>> runtime library on windows so I'm unlikely to make that jump soon.
> 
> This refers to http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Tutorial#Step52 as far as
> I can see.  I don't know how much of a problem that is for Bazaar, for
> me personally it looks like too much hassle to get the new runtime dll
> legally distributed.

In fact it's too much complicated. In my experience the only one working 
way to get the working install of pyexed application is to install 
vcredist for MSVC2008 available from microsoft site.

Python 2.5 is ideal platform for me personally, because py2exe on 2.5 
works like a charm and use it for my projects without any problems.

Of course, standalone installer for bzr is built now on separate build 
machine by Gary (many thanks to him), but I hope to have some free time 
to make my hands dirty in the installer stuff again, not yet 
unfortunately :-(. So take my argument with a little bit of salt.