If you click some of the links along the right side of Sparkle’s home page, you might notice that they lead to some new places…
Sorry, Git lovers, my guts took me to Bazaar and Launchpad. It wasn’t really a Git vs. Bzr thing; it was a Launchpad vs. Lighthouse+Github thing. I’m really pleased with the new solution so far, and I hope you’ll follow me to new and maintainable horizons.
Sparkle’s development now has a new home, complete with a new source repository and a new bug tracker.
Soon-ish, I’ll get up a new, simplified Sparkle home page—one that doesn’t have four different nav bars—and wiki. If any of you lovely designers in the audience feel like contributing, I’d love the help. I’m also looking into enabling the translations and blueprints sections for Sparkle on Launchpad.
Update: Some people were saying they were having trouble getting Bazaar going on OS X. It’s actually pretty simple: just get MacPorts and run:
sudo port install bzr
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Macports (up to date) fails to install py25-bz, which is a dependency of bzr (that’s a shame, there are beautiful git packages for Mac). What is the easiest way to get this running?
That’s odd; it works for me—I even just uninstalled Bazaar and its dependencies and had MacPorts reinstall them again.
In a FAQ on MacPorts’ web site, it mentions that sometimes on failures related to Python, simply rerunning will pass by the problem. Try a
port clean py25-bzand then anotherport install.Actually, https://launchpad.net/bzr/1.3/1.3/+download/Bazaar-1.3-OSX10.5.dmg works brilliantly, a nice .pkg like I was hoping for. It’s linked on the Bazaar home page - I feel like an idiot now.
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