bzr for Mac OSX 10.9+

[Richard Wilbur]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:04 AM, mark grandi <markgrandi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bazaar is a python 2 application, and pretty sure it installs to the
> python2.6 directory, does this help?

My Ubuntu GNU/Linux 12.04 install of both bzr v2.5.1 and bzr
v2.7.0dev1 (trunk) has bzr running against python 2.7, but I have no
recent experience with the bzr Mac OS X installer.

> http://instanceof.me/post/7880963425/fixing-bazaar-for-mac-os-x-10-7-lion

Nice instructions.  The latest Mac OS installer[0] delivers bzr v2.6.0
which I expect would work fine under python 2.7.

> Python3 is a non backwards compatible release and bzr foes not run on it at
> the moment. But I'm pretty sure that python 2.6 is still included with 10.9

One of our major goals for future development is to add python 3.x
support.  Presently bzr v2.6 requires python 2.6+.  With the new
development (bzr v2.7) we'll change the python requirement to 2.7+ and
start working to add 3.x support.  The plan is to support bzr 2.6.x
with backports of bug fixes for some time (for those stuck on
python2.6).

> ~mark
> ________________________________
> From: Benjamin Kerensa
> Sent: ‎6/‎23/‎2014 12:46 AM
> To: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> Subject: bzr for Mac OSX 10.9+
>
> Hello,
>
> bzr for Mac OSX 10.9+ continues to be a mess I have tried to do some
> debugging and it looks like the bzr scripts use deprecated python
> syntax that would need to be changed to support Python3 which Mac OSX
> runs.
>
> Has anyone taken any interest in fixing this?
>
Changing to support Python3 without some care to maintain Python2.7
support would break bzr for all those not yet running Python3.