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[Guillermo Gonzalez <guillo.gonzo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Ian Clatworthy
<ian.clatworthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Guillermo,
>
> What do you think about making
> https://code.launchpad.net/~verterok/bzr/OSX-10.4-dmg into it's own project?
>
> I think this would be good for a few reasons:
>
> * We'd have a project we could raise mac packaging bugs & feature
>  requests against. In particular, I'm keen to see the mailing list
>  discussion (https://lists.launchpad.net/bzr-mac/msg00007.html) we
>  had turned into tasks we can track.
>
> * Some of us could get in and help you making the changes, e.g. Jelmer
>  could update the configuration files when a new version of bzr-svn
>  is ready to be bundled.
>

Agreed, making it visible might help to get more contributions.

> For consistency with Windows, I was thinking bzr-mac-installers might be
> a good name. OTOH, maybe we ought to avoid using the term 'installers'
> and focus more on 'packaging' given the preferred way of doing things on
> OS X?
>
> Thoughts?

Yes, actually, we are currently building a installer, so the name should be ok.
I'm still trying to get a working Bazaar.app bundle with pyqt4/qt4 in
order to include bzr-explorer, bzr-svn, etc. just like the standalone
bzr.exe...but without success (I'm working on this as time permits)

So, I have no preference for one name or the other...but I think
packaging is more general as we can have an installer for system wide
installs and the bundle.

Cheers,