Comments on: Bazaar sprint, day 1

By: Daniel Watkins

Daniel Watkins — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:31:09 +0000

Alexander–

The writeups of most of the brainstorming sessions are at http://bazaar-vcs.org/SprintLondonMarch08/Brainstorms

Dan

By: bialix

bialix — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:09:00 +0000

I have recent story about two installers for Windows. The funniest part it’s about my ex co-worker. He is hardcore Linux guy and installed bzr on Windows XP (I think first time at all, I’m installing new releases of bzr for him on Linux myself). He don’t ask me anything about better or recommended way for installing on Windows. Then he asked me why sftp transport did not work for him. Very funny.

In short:
1) he decide to install python-based variant because he fears warning about incompatibility of gui plugins, but in fact he don’t need any gui plugins
2) he installed pycrypto from tar.gz without compiler, and `python setup.py install` blame about error and he even don’t mind about this as a problem.

So, if newbie is really dummy or say idiot, it’s inevitable.

By: beuno

beuno — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:05:41 +0000

Alexander:

I’m not sure any proposition was put forward. Just that it might be confusing to new users.

TortoiseBzr was mentioned multiple times as a priority, and it seems there will be someone working on it.

By: bialix

bialix — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:09 +0000

and what people proposed for this “problem”? they actually think it’s the problem? heh.

TortoiseBzr — is the problem.

By: beuno

beuno — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:53:37 +0000

Alexander:

It’s “Two roads for Windows”, which, if I remember correctly, is about there being two different installers.

By: bialix

bialix — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:48:02 +0000

Martin, can you say please what’s written about Windows on 3rd photo in the section “package availability”?