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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:27:30PM +0200, Phillip Lord wrote:
>The cygwin package of bzr works only within cygwin bash. This is not
>true to cvs or svn which work outside; for example, within a dos shell,
>"bzr" gives "No such program" errors.
>
>Likewise, cygwin bzr doesn't work properly with Emacs vc-bzr.el --
>again, with no such program errors. 

If bzr is a script it will work correctly with any Cygwin program.

>The reason for this is that bzr is a python script and uses the magic !
>line to find it's interpreter. Neither DOS nor Emacs vc-bzr.el interpret
>this correctly. The alternative which is a windows native bzr works
>fine, but doesn't do symlinks properly. 
>
>One solution to this would be to put a bzr.bat command into
>c:/cygwin/bin which launches python explicitly. I've tried this with the
>script below and it seems to work fine. It doesn't interfere with cygwin
>because the bzr script (in the same directory) gets called in preference
>when bash is running. 
>
>Would it be possible to get this added to the cygwin package? 

No.  We don't add .bat files to Cygwin.

cgf

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