[py-dev] towards a 0.8.0 release!

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Sun Apr 24 23:30:23 CEST 2005


On Apr 24, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Paul Moore wrote:

> On 4/24/05, holger krekel <hpk at trillke.net> wrote:
>> Hum, i see.  What is a proper way to get at the location
>> of such a binary on win32?
>
> Assume it's in PATH. If it isn't, there's no "proper" way. Actually,
> don't even assume that. I might well have a "svn.bat" in my path,
> which executes svn.exe from a particular directory. Just assume the
> command "svn" will work, and handle exceptions gracefully.

Why not look in the registry for hints that the win32 installer for svn 
was used, and if so, use that?

-bob



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