On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 21:09 -0700, Jon Cruz wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
We've tried to remain very conservative on dependencies. Though, I was going to propose this after 0.48 as the newer version does bring significant speed and size improvements to developers. Emacs in their migration to Bazaar used the latest format. To use the new format you need Bazaar 1.17 or higher.
So that leaves out Intrepid and earlier. According to the info on Ubuntu's website this also is not yet on Jaunty. Then again, it might be if they have a typo.
I guess the main question would be how many developers and potential developers do we have on distros with older versions of bazaar?
And given the glacial performance we've been seeing, especially for new checkouts, having nightly source tarballs and upgrading our bazaar to the latest format might be a good choice.
There are PPAs with the newer versions for the older versions of Ubuntu. So it should be pretty straightforward. From the Ubuntu perspective I would say that we should definitely wait for Lucid to get out the door as some people might only wish to run LTS releases (a very reasonable thing to do) and thus there'd be an LTS to recommend they run.
I imagine that RHEL 6 will include the new Bazaar as well, but I have no information on that (or when RHEL 6 will be out).
--Ted