[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #971: Build a windows installer

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#971: Build a windows installer
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Reporter:  dustin       |       Owner:  fatman  
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  accepted
Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  0.8.3   
 Version:  0.8.1        |    Keywords:  windows 
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Comment(by fatman2):

 (Dustin, there seems to be a block on my "fatman" account. I can't log in.
 Can you help?)

 Read-only issue sorted! I had revoked write-access from the web server
 user to the "fossils" directory. *facepalm*

 Yeah, I'm wondering about including a "download dependencies" component in
 the NSIS scripts as opposed to bundling the binary packages.

 Pro: less bandwidth required to clone the repo.
 Con: requires a third-party NSIS plugin at compile time.
 Con: depending on the plugin, /might/ reduce our version control ability.

 Thoughts?

 As to why I'm using a Fossil repo rather than a clone of the buildbot
 repo, there are several reasons.

 * It seemed to me that this could be set up as a separate project. This
 way there is no danger of me cluttering the buildbot repos. Currently,
 buildbot has the same dependency status as Python.
 * I'm in larval mode with Fossil at the moment. This means Fossil gets
 applied to everything in my life. It even makes me breakfast in the
 morning. [1]
 * It was really easy to set up Fossil with my Apache. (But see previous
 reason.)
 * I don't really know buildbot's repo structure.
 * Probably other reasons I haven't thought about.

 [1] the previous sentence is a lie

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