From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Jerry Asher <ja2038@gmail.com>, 23186@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 21:37:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eganpzsg.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8337r4rme5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 02 Apr 2016 19:44:18 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Regardless, I would say the assumption that COMSPEC is always set
>> and so therefore if it fails it is okay to
>> assign nil to tramp-encoding-shell knowing that later on it will be
>> in a string-match is problematic in and of
>> itself.
>
> Tramp is designed to work with Emacs as released by the Emacs
> development team. That Emacs doesn't have this problem. I think it
> would be unreasonable for anyone to expect the Tramp maintainers to
> cater to arbitrary changes in the Emacs code or in how it is
> configured on Windows, let alone if you poke some addresses in the PE
> headers of the produced binary.
The Tramp maintainers could check, whether COMSPEC is set, and raise a
verbose warning in case it isn't. Refusing further work.
Shall I commit this to the emacs-25 branch, or to master?
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-02 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-02 16:06 bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-02 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-02 19:37 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2016-04-02 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-02 20:21 ` Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 7:05 ` Michael Albinus
[not found] ` <handler.23186.D23186.145961804117806.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2016-04-02 17:32 ` bug#23186: closed (Re: bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match) Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 17:37 ` Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 17:50 ` Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 19:47 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-02 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-02 20:19 ` Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 20:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-02 20:11 ` bug#23186: closed (Re: " Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 20:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 7:15 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-02 21:35 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-03 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 15:55 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-03 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 16:49 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-03 14:51 ` bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match Eli Zaretskii
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