Fwd: Better Windows support for Bazaar.

Hi,

Finally some good news on this side.

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

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 Thu Apr 16 2009 - 18:50:34 MDT