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[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@xxxxxxx>]

On 11/08/2009 13:37, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> g) Installer for CLI-only version of bzr?

Here, I wonder: why do we need an installer here? Actually, I can ask 
the question for any config... I like software shipped as archive that I 
can just unzip at the place of my choice.
Installers can be useful, of course: they install start menu shortcuts 
(not super important for the CLI), register shell extensions (only for 
TBzr? Can be done with a simple .cmd file), change environment variables 
(for PATH and BZR_HOME, nice but easy enough to do manually).
All nice and good, but hardly unavoidable. And even less useful for 
updates, once these operations have been done.

> h) Documentation format. I found CHM format is very nice, especially
> because of Search feature. But it was mentioned it becomes obsolete.

We need an official reference saying it is obsolete before dropping 
CHM... It is still a convenient format. At least for its search 
capabilities across various HTML files.
Note: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902225/
Vista has some issues opening CHM files because of stupid application of 
security rules. There are workarounds and it might have been corrected.

> HTML docs works just fine.

Indeed, but I mentioned the problem of searching. I don't want to have a 
server running just to be able to search my doc.

>     * GUI merge tool? Which one? (I've tried WinMerge: it's not bad at
> all, but QBzr currently have problems to use it from qconflicts)

I vote against shipping a GUI merge tool. That's like shipping an editor 
for writing the commit message... And keeping it up to date might be 
problematic. User should be able to get its one, we can recommend a few 
choices too.
I don't even know if WinMerge can be used as a three-way merge tool (I 
think it cannot), I use Perforce Merge for that, an excellent free tool 
(although you must download the whole Perforce package to get it, I just 
made my own zip with it, but I doubt we can distribute it). I still use 
WinMerge as diff tool.

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