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[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@xxxxxxx>]

On 06/08/2009 07:24, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>  * TortoiseBzr

I agree with Martin, for lot of computers, TortoizeBzr is troublesome.
It is not very big, so that's not a problem to install it by default, 
but perhaps the installer should provide an option to activate it or 
not. Likewise, there should be an easy way to deactivate it completely 
(unregister the shell extension).
That's just a command line, but many people don't know how to do it.

> This installer needs to be available in many languages. If documentation
> has been localised for a given language, we bundle that instead of the
> English docs.

The "instead" might be a problem. The localized doc might be incomplete, 
or even incorrect. Keeping the possibility to fallback on original docs 
is always good.
Now, many software installers shows a list of languages as options of 
the installation: user can check and uncheck whatever they want. It is 
nicer to pre-check the language corresponding to the user locale, of 
course (and uncheck all the others - except perhaps English!).

> (d) For hard-code command line folk and server-only usage, a "core"
> installer is offered. This bundle might be called something like "Bazaar
> Core x.y" or "Bazaar CLI x.y" and might contain ...

That's a good idea. I was "shocked" to see I have to download a 14MB 
file to use Bzr. This size is mostly from Qt binaries, actually. I 
appreciate them but some people might find them superfluous.

Actually, it is the same for other VCS: I have a 14MB TortoiseHg 
installer but a 3MB Mercurial core installer, a 18MB TortoiseSVN but a 
4MB Slik-Subversion.
I lastly installed the lighter versions to use to get some projects in 
their native format (and to use in Bzr foreign plug-ins, of course).

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