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Comment 1 for bug 388790

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: would be better to have just one Windows installer

See also the comment here https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/345998/comments/4

A related question: for Windows, the download page pushes people to pick the default, standalone installer:
- http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download offers "default installer" vs "other options" (which are the python-based ones)
- http://bazaar-vcs.org/WindowsDownloads says "This is the best choice for Bazaar users on Windows"; whereas Python-based ones are marked "Alternative".
But, when I tested the standalone installer a year ago, bzr-gtk didn't work with it, and it's still mentioned in
http://bazaar-vcs.org/WindowsDownloads "You can use most of the Bazaar plugins ( /!\ excluding some GUI plugins)".
So I don't understand: the pages are pushing for using an installer which is incompatible with such a widely used GUI plugin as bzr-gtk (we all use it at MySQL)? What is the idea around this? That people normally shouldn't be using bzr-gtk under Windows?
Is there a simple way to make bzr-gtk work with the default installer? is that already fixed? in the plans?
Thanks!