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Re: address@hidden: rcs2log]
From: |
Dr Francis J. Wright |
Subject: |
Re: address@hidden: rcs2log] |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:36:23 -0000 |
From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
To: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Dr Francis J. Wright" <address@hidden>; "Eli Zaretskii"
<address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: address@hidden: rcs2log]
> > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:21:57 -0000, "Dr Francis J. Wright"
<address@hidden> 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
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], (continued)
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Stefan Monnier, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/10/30
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Richard Stallman, 2002/10/31
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/10/30
- Message not available
- Re: rcs2log.bat, Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/10/30
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/10/30
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log],
Dr Francis J. Wright <=
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Stefan Monnier, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Juanma Barranquero, 2002/10/30
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/10/30
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Juanma Barranquero, 2002/10/30
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Richard Stallman, 2002/10/31
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Richard Stallman, 2002/10/30