Re: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

2012-08-08 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/7/2012 1:16 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > from what I can tell, a user of CygWin SVN has no possibilities to be > aware of the fact that it is indeed CygWin SVN, and not another program. > This is the root cause for problems like > >http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SCM-213 As the volunteer

Re: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

2012-08-08 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On 07.08.2012 18:30, Andrey Repin wrote: Subversion libraries supposed to be linked directly, not used through "svn" command-line wrapper. For more details, go read http://svn-book.org/ Quite obviously, you never attempted to support a diverse user basis (just think of all the platforms) in J

Re: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

2012-08-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jochen Wiedmann! > 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, Then this is problem of Maven. Subversion libraries supposed to be linked directly, not used through "svn

Re: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

2012-08-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/7/2012 10:16 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: 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

RE: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

2012-08-07 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Jochen Wiedmann wrote: >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 d

Re: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

2012-08-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jochen Wiedmann! >> To all extents and purposes, Cygwin SVN behave just the way I'd expect >> from it. > I didn't say, it behaves wrong. My point is that I need to know that I > am using it, and not another svn, if all I know is "there's a svn binary > in my path". For what reason?

Re: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

2012-08-07 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
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 differ

RE: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

2012-08-07 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Jochen Wiedmann wrote: >I didn't say, it behaves wrong. My point is that I need to know that I >am using it, and not another svn, if all I know is "there's a svn binary >in my path". This isn't Subversion's responsibility; the problem is more general: how do you tell if the version of awk, sed or

Re: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

2012-08-07 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On 07.08.2012 12:27, Andrey Repin wrote: To all extents and purposes, Cygwin SVN behave just the way I'd expect from it. I didn't say, it behaves wrong. My point is that I need to know that I am using it, and not another svn, if all I know is "there's a svn binary in my path". Jochen   S

Re: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

2012-08-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jochen Wiedmann! > On 07.08.2012 11:45, marco atzeri wrote: >> I do not understand why you need different file for cygwin. > You gave the answer just below, Marco: >> Commit on cygwin should follow cygwin rules (unix like), >> so something like I don't get this topic. At all. And i'm

Re: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

2012-08-07 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On 07.08.2012 11:45, marco atzeri wrote: I do not understand why you need different file for cygwin. You gave the answer just below, Marco: Commit on cygwin should follow cygwin rules (unix like), so something like   SAG Consulting Services GmbH - Sitz/Registered office: Uhlandstraße 9,

Re: CygWin SVN should identify as CygWin

2012-08-07 Thread marco atzeri
On 8/7/2012 10:16 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: Hi, I apologize if I didn't pick the proper mailing list, but "discussion about packages" sounded right to me... wrong mailing list. Packages is for discussion between package managers, not for bugs or help. Forwarded to the right one: cygwin f