Re: using svn in GPS on Windows == wonky

[John Stoneham <captnjameskirk@gmail.com>]

On Dec 9, 4:55 am, Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> wrote:
> It is just that on Windows the value for path_style was set to CYGWIN
> instead of System_Default

Then why do the docs state otherwise?
http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/files/auto_update/gps-docs/The-VCS-node.html
Note that it clearly states "System_Default" is the default.

> as, on Windows, it seems that most people are
> using Cygwin/Subversion.

I would argue that the phrase "most people" should be somewhat
qualified. It is probably true that when someone builds GPS from
source they are using cygwin. But I believe that when someone
downloads the pre-built, native Windows binary of GPS they are
probably *not* using cygwin. (And most people using Subversion on
Windows are probably using TortoiseSVN anyway.)

> Don't see anything wrong here.

Wow, I'm sorry but I think that's being a bit cavalier. I see four
things wrong: 1) the assumption that "most people" using a pre-built,
native Windows binary of GPS are using cygwin; 2) the docs still state
that "System_Default" is the path_style default when it has been
changed to "CYGWIN"; 3) there is nothing in a README file or anywhere
else that says "If you are not running Cygwin you need to edit
path_style"; and 4) there is no option within GPS itself to change it
(at least not in the most recently-available GPL binary).

I don't think I'm being overly picky here. Outside of the Cygwin
environment, the Subversion setting for VCS is broken in the Windows
binary release package. Sure, it's a simple fix *if* you know what's
wrong, and *if* you know where to fix it -- but it's still broken.

There should at least be a note to this effect in a README.