Hi all! I've recently discovered the ongoing work on DVC, a few months after
having tried non-CVS revision systems. So, after a lot of websurfing for
information, and after trying tla and baz, I've come to the conclusion that for
windows I would be better off with bzr or darcs. From here, I had to choose
between the ability to use plink to access sftp servers (darcs), or have a nice,
friendly emacs interface (bzr). So for now I'll stick with bzr! :)
First of all, DVC with baz is working fine in windows. It's a great frontend!
When I tried to use bzr, I started getting problems. First of all, since I use a
native Windows emacs (and not cygwin's version), I can't use the bzr script
(wich would call my native python with something like
"/cygdrive/c/dev/python/scripts/bzr", and python won't find that cygwin path
ever...). So I had to change bzr-executable to "bzr.bat" (also comes with the
standard bzr distibution), but that's a minor fix.
The big problem was after that, I kept getting an error when launching some
bzr-* command. I traced the problem to the command creation. Apparently, "sh"
doesn't like commands like "\"path/bzr.bat\" \"status\"". So I changed the
command creation, and it's working like a charm (for the basic tests I
made). Here's the changed function:
(defun dvc-build-dvc-command (dvc list-args)
"Build a shell command to run DVC with args LIST-ARGS.
DVC can be one of 'baz, 'xhg, ...
Works for sh.exe under a windows (enabling the call of native programs)."
(let ((executable (dvc-variable dvc "executable")))
(replace-regexp-in-string "\\\""
""
(mapconcat 'shell-quote-argument
(cons executable
(delq nil list-args))
" "))))
I hope this can help dvc to get a few more Windows customers :)
Cheers!
--
Edgar Gonçalves
Software Engineering Group @ INESC-ID
IST/Technical University of Lisbon
Rua Alves Redol, 9, Room 635
1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.esw.inesc-id.pt/~eemg
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