On fredag 23 august 2002, 19.29, Barry Scott wrote:
> Am I right in believing that the windows setup for SVN will only work
> on english windows systems?
>
> I think this because of the hard coded path to diff.exe and diff3.exe.
>
> c:\progra~1\cygnus\cygwin\bin\diff.exe
>
> It assumes 3 things that are not required to be true on a windows
> system:
>
> 1. C: does not have to be the %SYSTEMROOT%
> 2. PROGRA~1 is not guaranteed to be the 8.3 name for "Program files"
> on english systems.
> 3. French windows spells "Programs files" as "Fiche Logiciel" is more
> likely to be FICHEL~1 (but I guessing at the detail). And so on for
> all the other none english systems.
It's no problem with non English Windows systems. And
c:\progra~1\cygnus\cygwin\bin\ are messing with the path but does not
destroy anything.
Some examples about the "Program Files" standard location:
* Mine is "F:\Program". This means that the diffs path is
and looks like:
c:\progra~1\cygnus\cygwin\bin\
* In Sweden, the standard location is C:\Program. Then the
location looks like above.
* In Norway it's C:\Programfiler wich means that the path
appears to be in:
C:\Programfiler\cygnus\cygwin\bin
English speaking vendors are often hard coding the "C:\Program Files"
path in installers and programs. The resoult for many non English
Windows users (including me) are that they are blessed with the DOS path
"c:\progra~2\" under the no needed "C:\Program Files" path.
By the way: I will upload a new Windows distro later today with HTML help
documentation and the latest svn*.zip included. Any chance of making the
ntpath program for Win9x? If not, then I will consider to use the
existing ntpath and ask the Win9x users to do it manually under
installation.
Jostein
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