[MERGE/RFC] LocalTransport.abspath() should return a drive letter if the transport has one

[Ian Clatworthy]

Mark Hammond wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 03:26 -0400, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>>> Ian Clatworthy has voted resubmit.
>>> Status is now: Resubmit
>>> Comment:
>>> the test needs to be skipped on non-Windows platforms - breaks the
>>> suite otherwise
>> I disagree; this test should be able to be run on linux; and helps
>> prevent regressions.
> 
> As discussed on IRC, the problem here is that osutils does platform specific
> things at import time, so our attempts to change its behaviour by adjusting
> sys.platform in the test are defeated.  I've attached a new patch that skips
> the test on non-windows platforms.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark

bb: tweak

> but the was osutils

You probably meant for this to say "but the problem was osutils".

Ian C.