Re: Complete Windows distributions, can I help?

On torsdag 27 juni 2002, 10.01, Frohwalt Egerer wrote:

> Would you be interested in a patch for Windows, which makes svn take
> diff and diff3 out of the same directory where svn is installed to? If
> yes, I'll probably be able to cook something up. (It is easy: Call
> GetModuleFileName in svn.exe to find the full path where svn was
> started from, chop off the file name (svn.exe) and append diff.exe
> ...)

That would be exellent! Then we don't mess with the users system at all
and users that have Cygwin usally don't keep in paths with spaces
anyway.

> The only difficulty I see: I have never hacked on svn as of yet, and
> I'm unsure how such platform specific stuff should be handled. But If
> I can get the source tree to compile, you'll get your patch (if you
> want it.)

At the moment, Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> and Sebastian Bergmann
<lists@sebastian-bergmann.de> are making binaries wich works well and
you should talk with them. I really don't know wich person who will make
them in the future, I think Branko Čibej are in charge here (?).

Jostein

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