On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:27:30PM +0200, Phillip Lord wrote: >The cygwin package of bzr works only within cygwin bash. This is not >true to cvs or svn which work outside; for example, within a dos shell, >"bzr" gives "No such program" errors. > >Likewise, cygwin bzr doesn't work properly with Emacs vc-bzr.el -- >again, with no such program errors.
If bzr is a script it will work correctly with any Cygwin program. >The reason for this is that bzr is a python script and uses the magic ! >line to find it's interpreter. Neither DOS nor Emacs vc-bzr.el interpret >this correctly. The alternative which is a windows native bzr works >fine, but doesn't do symlinks properly. > >One solution to this would be to put a bzr.bat command into >c:/cygwin/bin which launches python explicitly. I've tried this with the >script below and it seems to work fine. It doesn't interfere with cygwin >because the bzr script (in the same directory) gets called in preference >when bash is running. > >Would it be possible to get this added to the cygwin package? No. We don't add .bat files to Cygwin. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
