Re: address@hidden: rcs2log]

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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