Bazaar 2.6.0 for Windows?

[Matthias Kluwe]

Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer <at> samba.org> writes:
> 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?

Hmm, I really wanted to write this, but I forgot it during the editing of my
message:

We're currently using 2.5.1 here, and are perfectly happy with it. The
installer came along with qbzr 0.22.3 and the only bug I know is a rare case
invoking qlog including a revisionspec on a file that does not exist anymore
in the working tree. (I have not found the time to construct a minimal
example to reproduce this and `bzr log` works fine.)

My main concern (apart from the fact that I *like* updating...) is that it
looks wierd not offering the latest release on the download page -- the
Windows download is mentioned *first* on http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/ ...

Regards,
Matthias