Re: Fwd: Better Windows support for Bazaar.

On 04/16/2009 12:26 PM, Guido Serassio wrote:

> But is not clear to me if Bazaar on squid-cache.org should be upgraded
> with the rc version to support new functionality.

Can you ask Karl? He seems to be willing to help.

Thank you,

Alex.

> Regards
>
> Guido
>
>> From: "Karl Fogel" <karl.fogel_at_canonical.com>
>> To: "Guido Serassio" <guido.serassio_at_acmeconsulting.it>,
>> "Segreteria Acme Consulting S.r.l." <info_at_acmeconsulting.it>
>> Cc: "Sidnei da Silva" <sidnei.da.silva_at_canonical.com>,
>> "Martin Aspeli" <optilude_at_gmail.com>,
>> "Christian Robottom Reis" <kiko_at_canonical.com>
>> Reply-To: "Karl Fogel" <karl.fogel_at_canonical.com>
>>
>> Hi -- we saw your page about how Squid 3 development was being delayed
>> by Bazaar's problems on Windows:
>>
>> http://squid.acmeconsulting.it/
>>
>> Clicking on "Squid 3 for Windows" shows the reasons:
>>
>> "The development of Squid 3 for Windows (3.0 and 3.1 branches) is
>> stopped since the bazaar migration of the Squid 3 VCS because the
>> inability of Bazaar to handle correctly real multiplatforms
>> development projects. [...]"
>>
>> It's improved now. You might already know: the end-of-line conversion
>> feature has landed in Bazaar. It's in the 1.14 release candidate, and
>> it would be great if you could test it. The feature's behavior is
>> described at: http://tinyurl.com/bzr-eol
>>
>> You can get 1.14rc1 from http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download, which links to
>> bzr-1.14rc1.tar.gz...
>>
>> ...which of course should *also* be available as bzr-1.14rc1.zip!
>>
>> We are aware of this discrepancy. Right now, we're working on making
>> Windows installers available for the Bazaar nightly snapshots, so that
>> Windows-based developers can use the latest code as easily as anyone
>> else. As part of that process, we might also be able to make release
>> candidates available in .zip and/or installer form. In the meantime,
>> the 1.14rc1 source dist is available, and has the improved line-ending
>> support.
>>
>> It would be great if you could:
>>
>> a) Use it, and let us know on bazaar_at_lists.canonical.com if the
>> line-ending conversion support solves your problem.
>>
>> b) Change the "Squid 3 for Windows" page to encourage other
>> people to try 1.14rc1 too.
>>
>> The more Windows developers use Bazaar, the better its Windows support
>> will get. For our part, we will work on making those Windows
>> installers. If you want, I can let you know when they're done.
>>
>> Best,
>> -Karl Fogel
>>
>
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Received on Wed Apr 29 2009 - 22:45:49 MDT