Re: re[3]: [rdiff-backup-users] Still thinking about windows

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "GF" == Greg Freemyer <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:48:38 -0500

  GF> Ben, If you ever need a deployment solution, installer looks
  GF> good.

  GF> Unfortunately, its cygwin support is currently broken.

  GF> === Is there some way to tell which interpreter is in use?

Well, sys.executable will give you the name of the interpreter, and
sys.platform will tell you the OS.  E.g.

~ $ python
Python 2.2.1 (#1, Aug 30 2002, 12:15:30) 
[GCC 3.2 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 3.2-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.platform
'linux2'
>>> sys.executable
'/usr/bin/python'
>>> 

  GF> Do you suspect it would be feasible to port rdiff-backup to
  GF> win32 native with a few days work, or is it likely a huge
  GF> undertaking?

I don't have any win32 experience, but my guess is that it wouldn't
take someone very long, as long as that someone understood python, and
win32 well, and rdiff-backup to some extent.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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