From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:21:57 -0000 Organization: Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <001801c27f35$174ea720$3a50258a@maths.qmul.ac.uk> References: <20021028175824.9CEF.LEKTU@terra.es> <20021029082806.A079.LEKTU@terra.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035887063 21444 80.91.224.249 (29 Oct 2002 10:24:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:24:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186TXq-0005Zk-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:24:22 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186TcP-00015p-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:29:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186TWn-0007aj-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:23:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186TVy-0006T9-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:22:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186TVv-0006RM-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:22:26 -0500 Original-Received: from zeta.qmw.ac.uk ([138.37.6.6]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186TVv-0006RI-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:22:23 -0500 Original-Received: from dirac.maths.qmw.ac.uk ([138.37.80.10] ident=root) by zeta.qmw.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 186TVr-0002nh-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:22:19 +0000 Original-Received: from centaur (centaur.maths.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.80.58]) by dirac.maths.qmw.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Maths Hub 3.0) with SMTP id KAA09653; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:22:06 GMT Original-To: "Juanma Barranquero" , "Eli Zaretskii" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8880 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8880 From: "Juanma Barranquero" To: "Eli Zaretskii" Cc: ; "Dr Francis J. Wright" Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:30 AM Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:03:17 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > You could write a small script fragment that would walk PATH, look for a > > version of `sort' that understood some specific option (e.g., --help), > > and invoke that one explicitly, or barf if not found. > > That kind of thing strikes me as being fragile. > > Wouldn't it be easier to have a configuration variable > (`cvs-sort-program' or something) and have the user configure it if > needed? I agree that this would be a more elegant solution. However, it's not specific to CVS and in fact I use RCS, although it is specific to vc, so I suggest the variable name should be vc-sort-program. If such a new variable is going to be introduced to support non-UNIX users then I suggest that the vc code should also be edited to call sh explicitly to interpret the rcs2log script (as I suggested before) and my .bat file ignored. Francis