Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Native Windows Port

[Kevin Horton]

On 3 Apr 2008, at 19:17, Josh Nisly wrote:
> I'm attempting to make a native Windows port of rdiff-backup. I've  
> succeeded so far in building librsync and rdiff-backup's cmodules,  
> as well as fixing rdiff-backup's fs_abilities checks. What I'm  
> running up against now is that there seems to be a lot of  
> assumptions that the directory separator is "/", which obviously  
> doesn't work on windows.

Well, rdiff-backup is a Python program.  Python is designed so that  
you always use "/" as the path separator when you write a program,  
and the python interpreter worries about how to convert the path  
separator to the one that the actual OS you are on needs.  This makes  
it easier to use the same program on different operating systems  
without having to change the code.

I wonder if rdiff-backup can be made to work with py2exe.

http://www.py2exe.org/

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Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada