[Geany-devel] Remove MSYS dependency of Geany on Win~1

[Nick Treleaven]

On 26/06/2012 21:21, Nick Treleaven wrote:
>>> MSYS does treat backslashes as escapes, and I think that is a worse
>>> problem than cmd.exe interpreting forward slashes as command options, as
>>> it can occur in more situations. I think we should use forward slashes
>>> throughout.
>>
>> I expected something like that. OK, the "-b" version uses forward
>> slashes only. It's stupid and less efficient - not that it matters on
>> novadays machines. The command interpreters seem to tolerate forward
>> slashes for an exact-match path.
>
> I don't understand why you made these changes with a separate target for
> each data subdirectory. This is not clean enough IMO.

OK, I just got it:

 > copy src/* dest
The syntax of the command is incorrect.

I still don't think separate targets is acceptable though. I can at 
least apply the rest of the patch though.

> BTW you missed data/templates/files. Wouldn't using a single xcopy be
> more sensible to reduce bugs and maintenance?