Bazaar 2.6.0 for Windows?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 03:31:06PM +0000, Matthias Kluwe wrote:
> Joshua Judson Rosen <jrosen <at> harvestai.com> writes:
> > I notice that Bazaar 2.6.0 has finally been released. Is there going to be a
> > Windows installer uploaded for it soon?
> > 
> > I have a colleague on Windows who's interested in switching over to Bazaar
> from
> > Subversion (and TortoiseSVN), and I figured I might as well give him the
> latest
> > stable release, but it looks like the latest stable release available as a
> > Windows installer is 2.5.1. I don't see a 2.6-series Windows installer since
> > 2.6b1 (i.e.: I don't see one for 2.6b2 or 2.6.0).
> 
> ... and still there is none :-(
> 
> I'm more or less the last person to demand a free software project to provide
> a binary installer, and being a Linux user since the last century I'm writing
> this with some bad conscience, but *at work* I have to use Windows...
> 
> One major point for the decision to use Bazaar instead of the competitors was
> the availability of a pre-packaged installer and the bundled Bazaar Explorer
> that came with it and made the functionality accessible almost instantly for
> all co-workers.
> 
> I must admit that I don't have the resources to build the installer here. If
> I've interpreted the page Win32 Installers for Bazaar[1] correctly, the is
> a project on launchpad[2] dealing with this topic.
> 
> How up to date is this? Looking in the top level TODO.txt, this is headed with
> "Things to do for the Bazaar 2.2 installer".

2.6 had a number of bug fixes, but introduced no major speed improvements or
new features. Do you actually need 2.6.0 (because it fixes a particular bug
you're hitting), or would 2.5.1 suffice as well?

Cheers,

Jelmer

(who has no experience building Windows installers)