2008/8/19 TK Soh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:58 PM, TK Soh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Peer Sommerlund
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi folks
> >>
> >> As you know I'm working on how allow Tortoises (-hg, -cvs, -svn, -darcs
> etc)
> >> to coexist by sharing overlay icons. This is a long journey, and has
> >> currently led to the TSVN team developing a nice component named
> >> TortoiseOverlay which allows one set of overlay icons to be used by
> >> everybody.
> >
> > I've yet to find time to try out your patches yet, so I can't make any
> > sensible comments. We should visit this issue in greater depth after
> > the release of 0.4.
>
> OK. 0.4 is released. Maybe we should talk about this again. Before we
> start, I wonder if your original post requires any update first. After
> all, it's been almost five months since your last post.
Alas, as I'm very short on spare time, I have made no progress on this topic
since last time. Maybe I should look some more into it.
>> ISSUE #1: Should we provide an .msi installer?
I still believe we should try to make Inno Setup do what we want, possibly
by cooperating with the TCVS project and of course Mercurial, both of which
use Inno Setup.
I don't think an .msi installer is important. We can build an .msi simply by
wrapping the Inno Setup .exe - if we really want to. Windows has some
features for distributing .msi files that makes it attractive for system
administrators. Let's wait for some user requirements before switching
installer-tool.
>> ISSUE #2: Should we set up a separate repository for the installer?
I think we should consider how to best build the installer. The present MQ
based aproach is a little too difficult to use in my opinion. I would rather
have a python script which could download the required components, and
combine all into an installer. If / when Mercurial gets Overlayed
repositories, we could also build a repository with all components that the
installer depents on. Of course, disk space / one-time network usage is not
a big problem these days, so we could use a repo even without the overlay
feature.
Maybe the forest extension can make building from a multi-repository
slightly easier. At least it provides cross-repo tags.
regards,
Peer
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