[RFC] executable on windows

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Thu Mar 23 20:04:43 GMT 2006


Aaron Bentley пишет:
> On Windows, executing 'bzr' causes 'bzr.py' to be run.  On *nix, it
> causes 'bzr' to be run.

Actually, current bzr setup create bzr.bat to invoke 'bzr'. So, actually 
on windows bzr invoke bzr.exe or bzr.bat. To force windows to invoke 
bzr.py you need first add '.PY' to environment variable $PATHEXT. This 
is not default settings of windows (afaik).

> To accomodate both styles, I propose we rename bzr to bzr.py and create
> a new bzr that simply invokes bzr.py.
> 
> Thoughts?

--
Alexander





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