[BUG] bzr runs files in the current directory if supplied as a command name

[Michael Ellerman]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:47, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:07, John A Meinel wrote:
> >>The ExternalCommand code is designed to search all directories located
> >>in BZRPATH, such that if the user runs "bzr <command>", and <command> is
> >>not known, but it can be found in BZRPATH, it will be run.
> >>
> >>The problem, was that it was interpreting an empty BZRPATH, as the local
> >>directory.
> >>
> >>This has been fixed in my integration branch:
> >>http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/bzr/jam-integration/
> >>revno = 1324
> >
> > Is anyone still using that code, ie. non-python plugins? I think it's
> > been demonstrated that python-plugins are the way to go.
>
> I agree that python plugins are by far the preferred method. But if
> someone wants to put together their own scripting stuff using extern
> shell scripts, I think most of the work has been done to support that.
>
> That said, I don't know of anyone that is using it.

Yeah, I was just thinking if no-one's using it we could pull that code out, 
but I guess there's no real harm having it in there. I don't suppose you 
could move the ExternalCommand stuff into a python-plugin, it's too deep in 
the code.

cheers

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