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[John Arbash Meinel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Neil Martinsen-Burrell wrote:
> 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.)
> 

I don't know if it would help, but the Windows installers are built
using lp:bzr-windows-installers

Which sets up a buildbot routine to download all of the relevant
packages, stage them into a build area, and run various build processes.
It won't be directly applicable to the mac installers (as the final
target is to run a '.bat' file), but you may consider adapting it to
your needs.

The nice part is that it bootstraps itself pretty well. It isn't 100%
perfect, but it is decent. And it would be nice to reduce duplication.

I wonder if we couldn't use the same 'buildout.cfg' to get you into a
working state, and then just change the build target from
'build_installer.bat' to something appropriate for Mac.

John
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