On May 6, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Geert Janssens <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a source file redirect.c in packaging/win32 together with a > Makefile to compile this into a program called redirect. > > But I can't find this program in use anywhere. Can anyone remember why > this little program is in there and is it still needed/used in some way > ? >From the following in ChangeLog.2007: > 2007-07-08 13:12 andi5 > > * [r16277] packaging/win32/dist.sh: Use redirect.exe for > gconfd-2.exe (#450052) and qt3-wizard.exe (#452382). Move the > original executables to bin\, use renamed copies of redirect.exe > at the old locations. > > 2007-07-08 13:08 andi5 > > * [r16276] packaging/win32/Makefile.am, > packaging/win32/redirect.c: Add win32/redirect.c, a tool > spawning itself in a parent bin\ directory. This program, called > as "prog.exe (arg)*", will search for .\bin\prog.exe, > ..\bin\prog.exe and so on. The first hit will be spawned with > the same parameters and its exit status will be the exit status > of this program. It appears it was needed to launch the Qt-based AQBanking Wizard. We replaced that in 2.4.0 with a Gtk wizard (thanks to some hard work by Martin and Christian), so it's no longer required. Nuke it. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
