We need binary builds for Windows and Mac (and everything else)

[Steve]

Hi everybody;

I don't know how my email address got on this informal email/CC list, but I have no idea what you guys are talking about.  I wish you the best of luck, but PLEASE remove this address from this CC email chain:

beforewisdom at yahoo.com

Thanks.

--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Paul Franz <theandromedan at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Paul Franz <theandromedan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: We need binary builds for Windows and Mac (and everything else)
> To: "Steve Borho" <steve at borho.org>
> Cc: "Matt Mackall" <mpm at selenic.com>, "Patrick Mézard" <patrick.mezard at gmail.com>, "mercurial-devel" <mercurial-devel at selenic.com>, "Steve Borho" <beforewisdom at yahoo.com>
> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 10:46 PM
> So, currently there are no set scripts for generating a
> final 
> installer/binary build for installation? Like a DMG file
> for Mac OS X, 
> an EXE for Windows a rpm file for Linux, etc. Do I
> understand that 
> correctly?
> 
> Paul Franz
> 
> Steve Borho wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Matt Mackall
> <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> So, as I posted several times back in November and
> December, I was
> >> hoping to have regular, preferably nightly, builds
> for testing on all
> >> the major platforms during the code freeze for the
> 1.2 release. We don't
> >> have that.
> >>     
> >
> > I was able to augment the TortoiseHg build setup[1]
> such that it could also
> > generate binary installers for hg and hg-stable. 
> It's a tad manual at the
> > moment, but could be automated pretty simply.  The
> resulting installer is
> > approximately the same size as previous standalone
> Mercurial installers,
> > so I think I've kept the package clean.
> >
> > I've uploaded my first attempt to the same
> location we've been hosting
> > our nightly builds:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/tortoisehg-nightly/
> >
> > --
> > Steve Borho
> >
> > [1] http://bitbucket.org/peso/thg-installer/
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