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 16:36:23 -0000 Organization: Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <00c501c27f69$64158220$3a50258a@maths.qmul.ac.uk> References: <20021029082806.A079.LEKTU@terra.es> <001801c27f35$174ea720$3a50258a@maths.qmul.ac.uk> <20021029112745.A09D.LEKTU@terra.es> <200210291447.g9TElaS15818@rum.cs.yale.edu> 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 1035909934 3892 80.91.224.249 (29 Oct 2002 16:45:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:45:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" , Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186ZUi-00010e-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:45:32 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186ZZP-00017R-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:50:23 +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 186ZMj-0008Ol-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:37:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186ZMH-0008Kb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:36:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186ZMC-0008IS-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:36:48 -0500 Original-Received: from zeta.qmw.ac.uk ([138.37.6.6]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186ZMB-0008IO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:36:44 -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 186ZM7-0001J4-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:36:39 +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 QAA27392; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:36:32 GMT Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" , "Juanma Barranquero" 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:8913 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8913 From: "Stefan Monnier" To: "Juanma Barranquero" Cc: "Dr Francis J. Wright" ; "Eli Zaretskii" ; Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 2:47 PM Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:21:57 -0000, "Dr Francis J. Wright" wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > Yes, you're right. I was writing from the top of my head. > > > > > 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. > > > > Could you send a patch so we can test it? > > Can't we change the installation script instead ? > Such that on W32 systems, rcs2log is installed as rcs2log.sh > and then we install a rcs2log.bat wrapper ? > This way the VC code does not need to know whether rcs2log is implemented > as an sh script or anything else (it really doesn't need to know: I played > with the code and didn't know until now that it was an sh script rather > than a binary or a perl script). > > > Stefan I'll be happy to suggest a patch once we have agreed what we want to achieve. Why do you want to rename rcs2log to rcs2log.sh? That seems to me to make the Windows installation more non-standard than necessary. Francis