Anyway to run bzr and tortoisebzr on win8?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 10/12/2011 10:58 AM, Patrick van der Velde wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I just tried to do a bzr revert via TortoiseSVN (running bzr
> 2.5b2) and got the following error:
> 
> Run command: bzr revert "design/specifications/History 
> specification.docx" design/uml/Utilities.ncp --no-backup Qt:
> Untested Windows version 6.2 detected! bzr: ERROR:
> exceptions.TypeError: unsupported type u'Resolution pass'
> 
...

> I'm assuming this is because I'm running on the Win8 dev preview :)
> I don't need it fixed straight away but it would be nice to know
> if there is a work around for this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Petrik
> 

I don't think this is a Win8 issue. I believe what has happened is that

1) bzr-2.5 introduces internationalization to messages, so that the
command-line code now can display status messages, etc in localized
form (French, etc.)

2) Progress messages were considered to be part of that i18n.

3) qbzr wraps some commands and uses a custom reporter to run a
command line process in the background, and then display the progress
in nice GUI stuff in the foreground. To transmit the messages, it
encodes the content in 'becode' form.

4) bencode doesn't support Unicode strings (you have to encode them to
UTF-8 first). This didn't matter in the past, because all the strings
were simple ascii and 8-bit strings in memory.

5) Due to (1) they are now simple ascii Unicode strings in memory.

Basically, it is a small bug in qbzr, that it now needs to
'.encode("utf-8")' progress messages that it passes between the processes.

John
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