Windows installer for bzr 2.5.1

[John Arbash Meinel]

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

We have to cross compile it for 64-bit. Which you can do with Express,
but you have to download a specific SDK, etc that I personally haven't
tracked down. I know it is possible, but it is not trivial by any
means. (You can run 32-bit python on windows 64-bit, but you have to
use a 64-bit dll to integrate with explorer.)

> 
> I'm guessing that is probably slightly out of date, but close.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.
> 

We have a snapshot that we use for building, but it is an EC2
instance, and because we are using a licensed version of Visual
Studio, I'm not comfortable making it a public AMI.

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> 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
> 

Right. I was outlining what it would take to get someone else
bootstrapped for the first time. I believe Martin said it took him
1.5hrs to do the build, including the time needed to remember the
steps, etc.

That's generally what I remember, except for when a plugin is broken
vs a specific new version of bzr, etc.

John
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