GNU bug report logs - #927
vc-bzr.el with cygwin bzr

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord <at> newcastle.ac.uk>

Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:00:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord <at> newcastle.ac.uk>
Cc: 927 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#927: vc-bzr.el with cygwin bzr
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:22:57 -0400

> My hack is platform specific. A better solution would be, to modify
> vc-bzr-command to be either of the form "bzr-program-name" or '("python
> name" "bzr name"). vc-bzr-command would need to be modified to cope.
> There is couple of other places vc-bzr-command is used which would need
> changing also. 

A better solution would be to write a w32 wrapper for Bzr (an plain w32
executable that runs python with the bzr script), so that it does not
rely on cygwin's own handling of #!

After all, does Cygwin's bzr work with any other program that's not part
of Cygwin?  I'd guess not, which is why I think the problem is not
specific to Emacs.


        Stefan
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