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[Jean-Francois Roy <bahamut@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 27, 2009, at 18:01, Ian Clatworthy wrote:

> 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/

Done. You may want to update README in bzr to that effect.

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

Woops. I meant to delete that entire sentence. Doesn't make any sense  
to tell users where to download Bazaar when they are running the  
installer (which they have obviously found). I added a link to the  
source download page however.

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

Done. The link came from README, so again you may want to change it  
there too.

> > 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".

Agreed.

> > 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.