On 26.10.2019 16:45, Rhialto wrote: > On Sat 26 Oct 2019 at 14:57:10 +0200, Rhialto wrote: >> - devel/bzr-gtk (but it depends on gtk2, and I tried quickly but could >> not get it to work) > > For some reason, bzr-gtk 0.100.0 has no manual page and the supplied > shell scripts abort with exceptions. But "bzr vis(ualize)" actually does > something. > > There is a newer version of bzr-viz (two even), 0.104.0 (according to > https://launchpad.net/bzr-gtk; released on 2012-04-10) but the "project > homepage" at http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr-gtk only knows up to > 0.103.0 (and the download links are all dead). > > According, too, to that page, these plugins work (at best) with bzr up > to 2.5, and we already had bzr 2.6 in pkgsrc (which was very outdated > already). > > I have updated bzr itself already to 2.7.0 (from 15-Feb-2016). > Bazaar itself seems dead, if you look at releases, but there is activity > in a "friendly fork" called brz (Breezy) > https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~brz/brz/trunk/view/head:/README.rst > so there may be hope for it. (And it is based on python 3) > > I could update bzr-gtk to said version 0.104.0 and it partially works; > it seems to fail in different places than 0.100.0 which we have now. > Shall I do that? > Well.. bzr is pretty abandoned. Do we need to keep it around in the first place? There is a community fork for bzr (with py3 support) called breezy: https://launchpad.net/brz I propose to drop all the bazar software and import brz. I don't know the state of GUIs for it. > -Olaf. >
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