bzr on Windows

[Aaron Bentley]

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:

> Sadly, but in bzr-0.0.7 merge test is not working on Windows (seems that
> merge itself not working), so I roll back to 0.0.6. May be I have not
> some important third-party tools?

No. 0.0.7 does not require any external tools, as 0.0.6 does.  On reason
being that not all Windows users would have diffutils installed.

> Another win32 improvemets in setup.py: for windows users automatically
> created batch file bzr.bat for simple invoking bzr.
> 
> Wise men, can you explaine me why not using shutil.move on Windows
> instead of os.rename?

One thing about os.rename is that it's an atomic operation.  shutil.move
isn't.

> At least it's just working, but os.rename is not
> works if src_file exists.

It looks like the documentation of os.move is not correct: "If the
destination is on our current filesystem, then simply use rename"

> I think some of my fixes may be included in current bzr.dev for future
> compatibility with windows platform.

Thanks for sending the patch and suggestions.

Aaron
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