On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Bernt Hansen<be...@norang.ca> wrote:
> Manish <mailtomanish.sha...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>>> Does it crash and cause an error or report the old org version as before?
>>
>> It just reports the version as before; no crashing or error of any sort.
>
> Okay that's good. I don't have Emacs on windows here. If you have time
> to step through the org-version function in debug and figure out where
> it fails we might be able to get it working on windows too.

I'll find out how to do this and let you know the results.

>
> My guess is that determining the location of the .git directory fails so
> it acts just like it's not running from a git repository.
>
> What do you get when evaluating the following form?
>
> (file-name-directory (locate-library "org"))
>
> I need to move up one directory from what that returns to see if the
> .git directory exists and I append '../' to the path to move up on *nix
> systems. That probably doesn't work for windows. Maybe there's a
> better way to strip off the last directory from the path that
> file-name-directory returns.

It returns "d:/home/zms/elisp/org-mode.git/lisp/" cd'ing into
"d:/home/zms/elisp/org-mode.git/lisp/.." works in Cygwin but fails in
Windows shell due to front slahes.

-- 
Manish


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