From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:30:55 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021028175824.9CEF.LEKTU@terra.es> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035826388 12717 80.91.224.249 (28 Oct 2002 17:33:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Dr Francis J. Wright" Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186DlB-0003Ih-00 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:33:05 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186DpP-00040p-00 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:37:27 +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 186DkO-0000sz-00; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:32:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186DjD-0008N3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:31:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186Dj7-0008LQ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:31:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.141] (helo=mail.peoplecall.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186Dj7-0008LG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:30:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.143] (jbarranquero.ofi.peoplecall.com [62.22.27.143]) by mail.peoplecall.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9SHUtb23168; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:30:55 +0100 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.05.06 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:8847 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8847 > I suggest the following solution. Modify the NTEmacs installation procedure > to include the file rcs2log in the bin directory, and also include in the > bin directory the attached file rcs2log.bat (with any modifications deemed > appropriate), which NTEmacs can execute directly and which acts as an > interface to rcs2log. I have written rcs2log.bat to be as portable across > different versions of Windows as possible, without losing the advantages of > NT. However, I have tested it only on Windows XP, where it seems to work > well. > Of course, this all assumes a suitable UNIX-like environment on the Windows > platform, and I use Cygwin, which works well. I think it is reasonably > likely that anyone trying to execute the Emacs command > `vc-update-change-log' in NTEmacs will have a suitable environment for > executing UNIX shell scripts. I also think it's reasonable, provided we document it somewhere... CVS is an Unixish tool that few (if any) Windows users will have in their environment unless they've installed it. But it'd be good to document it, or at least talk with Steve Kemp and get it added to the Emacs Windows FAQ. I don't entirely like, though, the requeriment that the unix-compatible sort be found on the PATH before any system one... I like to put c:\bin\cygwin\bin, c:\bin\mingw\bin and the like *after* c:\winnt\system32, c:\winnt, etc. and wouldn't like to be forced to change that just to use rcs2log... /L/e/k/t/u