Comment 8 for bug 200436

I don't think to grep `uname ` for only once will influence the performance.

anyway, I'll give you a patch this weekend.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Alexander Belchenko <email address hidden> wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 69851 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/69851
>
> chen bin пишет:
>
> >> bzr.exe is native windows version. It knows nothing about Cygwin.
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > bzr.exe could try to run the command "uname" and grep the "CYGWIN"
> > from stdout, then it wounld display some warning message.
>
> I don't want to make bzr.exe slower. And it could be not enough in some
> cases.
>
>
> >> And it should not know anything about Cygwin. It's out of scope it's
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > It's actually a minor engineering problem about friendly interface
> > design instead of one related to programming philosophy.
>
> There is nothing about friendliness IMO. It's only about using native functions
> from msvcrt.dll (getpass)
>
>
> > I'm working for a commercial company. My boss always blames me (and
> > he's right) for such problems. Because it's MY responsibility to make
> > sure our softewares are robust , NOT our clients.
>
> I'm totally agree here. But all related to bzr.exe I do purely in my free
> time and I have more important things to implement for proper windows
> support.
>
>
> >
> > This bug happens at least twice,right? Although bzr is free, this bug
> > at least cost u and your company money and time on tech support.
>
> I think it's at least 3 times.
>
> If you think you know how to solve it's problem in robust and efficient way --
> please send us a patch.
>
> --
>
>
> bazaar 1.2 (standalone) failed in cygwin shell
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200436
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>
> Status in Bazaar Version Control System: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> bazaar 1.2 (standalone) failed in cygwin shell when running command " bzr init-repo --no-tree sftp://<email address hidden>/~/repo", no output, no error message in .bzr.log.
>
> if I run the same command in dos shell, it works.
>

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