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[Neil Martinsen-Burrell <nmb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, I've been working on and using Bazaar a lot lately and I've still 
got a laptop with 10.5 and a desktop with 10.4 (PPC unfortunately, but 
universal support is fairly good in python).  I'd like to help out by 
building installers, but I need a pointer to some directions on how to 
do it.  I seem to remember that there was a project on Launchpad for a 
script to build installers, but I've forgotten what it is.  Are 
instruction for building the installers something that we should put on 
the wiki somewhere, or change the branch ownership to the Launchpad 
bzr-mac group, or ...?  (The instructions at 
http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/MacOSXBundle/Prepare seem a bit out of 
date and excessively manual.)

It seems that supporting {OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6} X {Python 2.4, 2.5, 
2.6} X {Bazaar 2.0, 2.1} is a lot of combinations.  Should this group 
agree on what versions of what we'll support?  For example, on 10.4 and 
10.5, the system pythons are very old and most people use the python.org 
Framework builds.  Should we support those all the way back to Python 
2.4 on those platforms?  10.6 has Python 2.6 so we probably don't need 
to go back to 2.4 or 2.5.  10.4 is fairly long in the tooth, so maybe we 
should produce installers only for the stable series in a 
maintenance/bugfix mode.  Here's a suggested set of installers (egads!):

OS X 10.4:
    Python 2.5, 2.6 from python.org
        bzr 2.0 series

OS X 10.5:
    Python 2.5, 2.6 from python.org
        bzr 2.0 and 2.1 series

OS X 10.6:
    Python 2.6 from Apple
        bzr 2.0 and 2.1 series

That's only eight, right.  Different python versions are parallel 
installable, so with the right scripts this could be done by 2-3 
prepared individuals.

-Neil

-Neil