ANN: setuptoolsbzr 0.2 - a setuptools plugin for Bazaar

[Barry Warsaw]

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Bazaar[1] is a distributed version control system that provides many  
useful features over second generation vcs's like Subversion, and  
it's written in Python.

setuptoolsbzr is a plugin enabling Bazaar support for the also  
awesome setuptools[2] enhancements to Python's distutils.  With this  
plugin, you can manage your projects under Bazaar and setuptools will  
be able to find version controlled files when it creates packages of  
your project.

To use, all you need to do is add the following to your setup()  
function:

setup(
     # ...
     entry_points = {
         'setuptools.file_finders': [
             'bzr = setuptoolsbzr:find_files_for_bzr',
             ],
         },
     setup_requires = [
         'setuptoolsbzr',
         ],
     )

setuptools will do the rest.  You can of course grab the  
setuptoolsbzr package separately from the Python Cheeseshop[3].

One caveat: setuptoolsbzr requires that either the command line  
program bzr(1) be available on your $PATH or that the bzrlib package  
be installed in your Python's site-packages.  setuptoolsbzr has a  
dependency on the 'bzr' package but this dependency is disabled due  
to a minor bug in the bzr Cheeseshop tarball[4].  This may not affect  
you because why would you want to use setuptoolsbzr if you didn't  
already have bzr installed?  For now though, just install Bazaar  
manually via the tarball available on the bazaar-vcs.org site, or  
your OS's package manager and you should be good to go.  When the bug  
is fixed, I'll update setuptoolsbzr accordingly.

Enjoy,
- -Barry

[1] http://bazaar-vcs.org
[2] http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools
[3] http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/setuptoolsbzr
[4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/125521

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