From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:47:36 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200210291447.g9TElaS15818@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <20021029082806.A079.LEKTU@terra.es> <001801c27f35$174ea720$3a50258a@maths.qmul.ac.uk> <20021029112745.A09D.LEKTU@terra.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035903100 6307 80.91.224.249 (29 Oct 2002 14:51:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:51:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Dr Francis J. Wright" , "Eli Zaretskii" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186XiQ-0001dK-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:51:34 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186Xn5-000747-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:56:23 +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 186Xfs-0001Is-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:48:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186Xeh-0000lT-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:47:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186Xec-0000iE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:47:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186Xec-0000i3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:47:38 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9TElaS15818; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:47:36 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero 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:8898 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8898 > 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