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Welcome to the Bazaar Version Control System's guide for system
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administrators. Bazaar is a flexible system that provides many possible
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options for serving projects in ways that will hopefully meet your needs. If
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you have requirements that are not met by the current state of the Bazaar
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ecosystem, please let us know at bazaar@lists.canonical.com or on Launchpad at
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https://launchpad.net/bzr.
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In this guide, we will discuss various techniques for making Bazaar projects
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available, migrating from other Version Control Systems, browsing code over
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the Web and combining Bazaar with other tools. In many of these categories,
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multiple options exist and we will try to explains the costs and benefits of
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The intended audience for this guide is the individuals who administer the
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computers that will do the serving. Much of the configuration that we will
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discuss requires administrator privileges and we will not necessarily indicate
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every point that those privileges are needed. That said, reading this guide
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can also be very helpful for those who are interested in communicating to the
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system administrators about the requirements for making full use of Bazaar.
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What you need to run a Bazaar server
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Where possible, we will discuss both Unix (including Linux) and Windows server
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environments. For the purposes of this document, we will consider Mac OS X as
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In general, Bazaar requires only Python_ 2.4 or greater and the cElementTree_
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package (included in Python 2.5 and later) to run. If you would *optionally*
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like to be able to access branches using SFTP, you need `paramiko and
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.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
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.. _cElementTree: http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm
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.. _paramiko and pycrypto: http://www.lag.net/paramiko/
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For maximum performance, Bazaar can make use of compiled versions of some
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critical components of the code. Pure Python alternatives exist for all of
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these components, but they may be considerably slower. To compile these
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extensions, you need a C compiler and the relevant header files from the
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Python package. On Linux, these may be in a separate package. Other
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operating systems should have the required headers installed by default.
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If you are installing a development version of Bazaar, rather than a released
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version, you will need Pyrex_ to create the C extensions. The release
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tarballs already have the Pyrex-created C files.
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.. _Pyrex: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/
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