Re: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

[Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedmann@softwareag.com>]

On 07.08.2012 13:15, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:

> This isn't Subversion's responsibility; the problem is more general: how do you
> tell if the version of awk, sed or vim are Cygwin ones or not (or ones compiled
> containing a specific patch, or built on a particular day, or any other of a
> myriad of different things that could make a difference to an executable's
> behaviour)?

I don't know about "more general". However, I know very well that 
there's a particular project (Maven Release Plugin), which has this very 
problem with svn, not with awk, sed, or whatever. And I'd like to
fix that specific problem, not eliminate hunger in the world, or do 
whatever more general. To achieve that, I've pointed out a non-intrusive 
and harmless change in CygWin SVN, which might help to resolve that problem.

And, besides, your proposed solution won't work: I could, of course,
use "which", or "where" to deduce the location of "svn", but what would
that tell me. Assuming, I get "/usr/bin/svn", then I'd know that "which"
is a CygWin binary (because it emits a CygWin path), but what's got that
to do with svn? The fact that it resides in the CygWin bin directory
doesn't mean it is also a CygWin binary.

Jochen



 
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