Windows installer for bzr 2.5.1

[Gordon Tyler]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:42 AM, John Arbash Meinel <
john.meinel at canonical.com> wrote:

> We have a document up about building the installers. It is about 4
> 'pages' long.
>
>
> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-pqm/bzr/bzr.dev/view/head:/doc/developers/win32_build_setup.txt
>
>
The third paragraph in the second step ends in the middle of a word. The
suspense is killing me! ;)

Those are some pretty hairy instructions. Any idea why TortoiseBzr can't be
compiled with Visual Studio Express?

I'm guessing that is probably slightly out of date, but close.
>
> The last time I set up the EC2 instance, it took me at least a full
> day. garyvdm was working to set up his own local instance (afaik he
> never completed), we've considered setting up something on Babune
> (never completed), etc.
>

I'm surprised that you have to do all this setup over and over again. Why
can't you just take a snapshot of the machine state and storage after
you've setup everything? Theoretically then the only things that should
need updating are downloading/installing the new bzr and plugins packages
that are to be incorporated into the installer.


> Also, the bzr windows installer is a case where we package all the
> plugins as well. So you have all of their dependencies, and it is a
> fairly long tail to track down.
>

Are there any plugins which the Windows installer installs that the OS X
installer doesn't?


> We've tried to make it easier to get the installers built a few times.
> What really worked in the end is "launch this EC2 image, do the
> build", because everything else is just really hard to get bootstrapped.


So, you do have a snapshot of the EC2 instance in a semi-prepped state?

Ciao,
Gordon
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