Ok, Eugene, you convinced me. Tom
At 19:52 20.02.2002 +0300, you wrote: >Hi Tomas, > > > ? Even on Windows, there exist a "home" directory. And the default >location > > of the .cvspass is in your home directory. > >It is supposed to be so, but real windows CVS clients does not work in this >way. They look into C:\. Furthermore, under Windows the user's home >directory is not named "HOME". >In order to be less dependent on various systems we decided to require that >CVS_PASSFILE is always specified explicitly. >If you don't like the default setting, just change it. To avoid changing it >every time the new build is out you can define CVS_PASSFILE explicitly in >your system. The "unusual" default is chosen because various Windows systems >may define various variables (or variable combinations) that point to the >user's home. Or on some systems the variable may not be defined or defined >incorrectly. Specifying the explicit default value also makes the bat-file >less system dependent. > >Best regards, >Eugene Zhuravlev >IntelliJ Software, http://www.intellij.com/ >"Develop with pleasure!" > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Thomas Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 13:20 >Subject: Re: [Eap-list] CVS_PASSFILE > > > > Hi Eugene, > > > > why CVS_PASSFILE is initialized in idea.bat with a non-standard >C:\.cvspass > > ? Even on Windows, there exist a "home" directory. And the default >location > > of the .cvspass is in your home directory. > > > > Tom > > > > At 12:28 20.02.02 +0300, you wrote: > > >Hi Thomas, > > > > > >Why not setting the CVS_PASSFILE variable to point to $HOME/.cvspass ? > > > > > >Best regards, > > >Eugene Zhuravlev > > >IntelliJ Software, http://www.intellij.com/ > > >"Develop with pleasure!" > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "Thomas Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:51 > > >Subject: [Eap-list] CVS_PASSFILE > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > what do you think about that: > > > > > > > > If no CVS_PASSFILE environment variable is set, don't add the > > > > -DCVS_PASSFILE="%CVS_PASSFILE%" to the java(w)-command line of IDEA. >IDEA > > > > automatically knows, that it should take the default one: >$HOME/.cvspass . > > > > > > > > It's a little bit annoying, that after a new IDEA release I have to >edit > > > > the idea.bat file or have two .cvspass hanging around on my system. > > > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Eap-list mailing list > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Eap-list mailing list > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Eap-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > > >_______________________________________________ >Eap-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
