I hear that people want the git-annex assistant to be easy to install without messing about building it from source..
on OSX
So Jimmy and I have been working all week on making an easily installed OSX app of the assistant. This is a .dmz file that bundles all the dependencies (git, etc) in, so it can be installed with one click.
It seems to basically work. You can get it here.
Unfortunatly, the ?pasting into annex on OSX bug resurfaced while testing this.. So I can't really recommend using it on real data yet.
Still, any testing you can do is gonna be really helpful. I'm squashing OSX bugs right and left.
on Linux
First of all, the git-annex assistant is now available in Debian unstable, and in Arch Linux's AUR. Proper packages.
For all the other Linux distributions, I have a workaround. It's a big hack, but it seems to work.. at least on Debian stable.
I've just put up a linux standalone tarball, which has no library dependencies apart from glibc, and doesn't even need git to be installed on your system.
on FreeBSD
The FreeBSD port has been updated to include the git-annex assistant too..
The same version of ghc in Debian repository on i386 and amd64 privides ghc-ghci virtual package while on all the other architectures it doesn't. Is that normal or shall I file a bug?
What it basically means is that the packages, both git-annex (with assistant) and its build dependencies, for all the other archs cannot be build on Debian porting machines until that is fixed. It already is in the experimental version but until that one gets to unstable there won't be any official debs for all non-Intel architecures.