1 On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:34:04PM +0100, jnrowe@gmail.com wrote:
2 > [This time to the list]
4 > * W. Trevor King (wking@drexel.edu) wrote:
5 > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 03:29:42PM +0100, James Rowe wrote:
6 > > > Isn't there a bzr web interface that at least supports creating
7 > > > tarballs/zips? It is pretty standard functionality for most other VCS'
8 > > > web interfaces so I'm guessing there must be, but loggerhead seems not
11 > > Unfortunately, people would still need bzr to install the versioned source:
13 > > libbe/_version.py:
14 > > bzr version-info --format python > $@
16 > I hadn't even seen that change go in. The last upstream change in the
17 > version I have installed locally was by you on 2008-11-24.
19 It's only been in Chris' http://bzr.bugseverywhere.org/be/ branch
20 since revno: 321, 2009-06-25. Obviously we may have to adjust the
21 --verison output once we settle on a versioning scheme, but whatever
22 we pick, I think having the auto-generated libbe/_version.py around
23 for pinpointing bugs is worth the trouble of requiring bzr when
24 building distribution tarballs.
26 > > So you'll need a "release" target in the makefile to build a bzr-less
27 > > install. While you're at it, you should probably compile the manpage
28 > > too to remove the docbook-to-man dependency.
30 > Maybe for others. Our packages just don't have the manpage as it is only
31 > the "be help" text reformatted, the easy option is sometimes the right
32 > one :) Also, I've just noticed that it has even less documentation in
33 > the bzr tree[1] making its installation much less compelling unless your
34 > packaging rules require a man page like Debians.
36 > Out of curiosity why is the Makefile being used for this stuff anyway?
37 > It is going to make it difficult to build locally when we finally get
38 > around to merging. Examples: If distutils was being used exclusively it
39 > would fix the #! lines in xml/*. We'd be able to point Python
40 > $version_of_the_day at setup.py instead of having to sed the Makefile or
41 > run setup and manually install other files.
43 I speak Makefile better than I speak distutils ;). I'm not sure how
44 to translate the be.1 generation/installation or the libbe/_version.py
45 generation into distutils. Anyone else?
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