<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <br> <blockquote cite="mid:0147505f58afd99e53fc20d15a5cfd85,83bon5b33h.fsf@gnu.org" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">If so does anyone have any advice for installing Bazaar (and by implication python) in this MinGW+Msys environment? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Cygwin? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> Thanks all for the suggestions/feedback. I could not find an available msys version of python.<br> The development team here need to build native windows executables, but they say that building under cygwin creates executabes that need cygwin at run time which is a pain for their users.<br> Building under MinGS+Msys avoids that problem.<br> <br> My personal choice would be to tell the users to use a decent OS like Ubuntu ;^)<br> <blockquote cite="mid:0147505f58afd99e53fc20d15a5cfd85,83bon5b33h.fsf@gnu.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Not exactly, but similar: MSYS is a fork of (an old version of) Cygwin, and one of the main things it does is support Unix style /foo/bar file names. If I were the OP, I would simply refrain from invoking bzr from the MSYS Bash or from other MSYS tools. </pre> </blockquote> That will indeed be my fallback if all else fails (it may eventually only be 'bzr revno' that is needed at build time).<br> <br> <br> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title></title> <style type="text/css">  </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;" align="LEFT"> <strong> <font color="#000017" face="Arial" size="2"> David</font></strong></p> <br> </div> </body> </html>