[ANN] bzr 2.4b3 has gone gold

[Gordon Tyler]

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On 5/27/2011 1:34 AM, vila wrote:
> If someone wants to invest time into exploring how to build an
> installer that can either embed a python 2.6 or requires one to be
> installed, see http://pad.lv/776523 and http://pad.lv/776996

Have you ever investigated pyinstaller or py2app?

>> It would be nice to have a somewhat generic package dependency
>> resolution tool that knew how to download and unpack tarballs or
>> checkout bzr branches according to some version specification
>> and would automagically do The Right Thing (TM) when those
>> version specifications change compared to what is sitting in the
>> filesystem.
>
> Who's cheating now ? This sounds like something almost done in the
> OSX installer toolchain:)

It is. It just needs the smartness to detect when it needs to
update/download. Maybe I'll poke at that sometime.


> Even if we can't share everything from that as windows is... what
> it is, it would be nice to converge to a makefile based approach
> for that, relying on these shared tools for the actions (we already
> requires GNU make so no need to start chasing other technologies
> IMHO).

I'm not so convinced that a makefile would get us much. How do you see
it helping us?

Ciao,
Gordon


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