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[Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jean-Francois Roy wrote:

> This is my final Bazaar 2.0.0 distribution for Snow Leopard.

> Screenshot of the installer showing the introduction text:
> http://www.devklog.net/bazaar/bazaar_installer.png

Nice!

> The ReadMe:
> http://www.devklog.net/bazaar/ReadMe.html

Just some ideas you may want to consider for this:

* the preferred link for docs is now http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/en/

* you may want to reference http://bazaar-vcs.org/MacOSXDownloads
  instead of http://bazaar-vcs.org/DistroDownloads.

* the link for bugs shouldn't have "edge" in there.

> I do not believe I can upload the file to the official download site nor
> update the Mac OS X downloads page, so someone else will have to do that.

You can certainly edit http://bazaar-vcs.org/MacOSXDownloads and it's
fine to link to your installer as a "Test release for Snow Leopard"
right now IMO.

Before we upload it to https://launchpad.net/bzr/+download though, I
think you and Guillermo need to reach some agreement w.r.t. positioning
of the various installers. Let me explain ...

1. Your installer is for Snow Leopard and has content X.
2. Guillermo's installer is for Leopard/Tiger and has content Y.

Can someone take your stuff and produce matching "core" installers for
Leopard/Tiger? Can Guillermo position his installer as as a "desktop"
installer making it a superset of your content, adding documentation and
GUI plugins?

Don't get me wrong - you're stuff sounds great. I just think providing
different content depending on whether users are running Leopard vs Snow
Leopard will comes across as being "piecemeal".

> I've pushed my infrastructure for building the distribution on
> lp:~jeanfrancois.roy/+junk/SnowLeopard-package. It is *very* rough at
> the moment.

It's an excellent step forward though. Thank you!

Ian C.