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: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:07:11 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021029160458.A0AA.LEKTU@terra.es> References: <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="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035904123 10607 80.91.224.249 (29 Oct 2002 15:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:08:43 +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 186Xyz-0002kj-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:08:41 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186Y3d-0007Ki-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:13:30 +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 186XzZ-0006N9-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186XyR-0005hm-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186XyM-0005hF-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:08:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.141] (helo=mail.peoplecall.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186XyL-0005h7-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:08:01 -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 g9TF74b02060; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:07:11 +0100 Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-Reply-To: <200210291447.g9TElaS15818@rum.cs.yale.edu> 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:8903 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8903 On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:47:36 -0500, "Stefan Monnier" wrote: > 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). I don't know what's the right way, but as I've said, detecting at installation time whether there is a GNU-compatible sort in the path and where is it located seems very fragile to me. Not to mention that it doesn't adapt very well to situations where you modify the PATH or add/remove items to it (something I do quite frequently). /L/e/k/t/u