Building homebrew bzr packages on OS X

[Fred McCann]

Thanks for the link for the OS X installer. I’m going to take a crack at updating that after I have the homebrew packages created.

- Fred McCann
fred at sharpnoodles.com

> On Feb 9, 2016, at 10:22 AM, Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> Fred McCann <fred at sharpnoodles.com> writes:
> 
>> Hey everyone, I’m working on preparing homebrew packages to make installing
>> and upgrading bzr on OS X easy (http://brew.sh). Now that 2.7 is stable, I’m
>> working on getting an updated package into the main package repository.
> 
>> I’m also working on packaging bzr plugins as well. In some cases, these
>> plugins are easy to install manually, but in cases where there are
>> dependencies (especially qbzr), installing on OS X can be difficult without
>> a package manager. I have packages for:
> 
>> bzr-bisect
>> bzr-difftools
>> bzr-explorer
>> bzr-extmerge
>> bzr-fastimport
>> bzr-git
>> bzr-xmloutput
>> bzrtools
>> qbzr
> 
>> One of the issues that I’m having with packages is that homebrew needs
>> tarball release files. The other issue is it’s not clear which plugins are
>> maintained and still widely useful. Do we have an idea which plugins are
>> still viable?
> 
> Well, releases are the way for plugin maintainers do give a definitive
> answer for that ;)
> 
> But that's also based on installer builders feedback,
> 
>> Is it possible to create tarball releases for them?
> 
> Yes, if you can tell us which branches/versions you have tested for each of them,
> I can arrange to build tarballs.
> 
> In doubt, I would focus on qbzr, bzr-explorer (unless some of the others
> are dependencies for them).
> 
> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-mac/bzr-mac-installers/trunk/view/head:/config.py
> is used to define where to get the various bits for the osx installer.
> 
> That may need to be updated but https://launchpad.net/bzr-mac-installers
> is the best starting point for bzr/osx.
> 
>   Vincent
> 

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