[Pkg-bazaar-maint] binaries of bzr

[Martin Pool]

On 7/14/07, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> > On the packaging front, we need to consider whether we should package
> > the .so modules separately - that is have
> > bzr : the bzr application and bzrlib
> > bzrlib-modules : binary modules to accelerate bzr
> > or just munge them into one package.
> >
> > What else would be nice? Any cool ideas?
> I would think that we should put them in one package, or at least make
> it somewhat mandatory to install the modules together with bzr. The main
> issue with the pyrex code is the requirements and complexity of the
> build process - which is handled by the packager in the case of Debian
> and Ubuntu. I don't see any reason not to always want to use the pyrex
> stuff given that it's faster. Or are there any disadvantages to pyrex
> for the user that I'm missing?

I think we should have just one package.

The only other thing I can think of is that the bzr package should
probably suggest installing the more commonly used plugins.

-- 
Martin