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

[Nick Treleaven]

On 26/06/2012 21:31, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> 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.

Now applied without the install changes; thanks for the patch.

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