Re: How to detect CygWin SVN?

[Jeremy Bopp <jeremy at bopp dot net>]

On 02/09/2011 02:22 PM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm assuming that your script expects svn to be in the PATH, so you
>> could check to see if the path to the svn client lives within Cygwin's
>> installation:
>>
>> if [ $(type -p svn) = '/usr/bin/svn' ]; then
>>  echo "Found Cygwin's svn client"
>> fi
>>
>> Unless someone goes out of their way to confound things, this should be
>> good enough.
> 
> Thanks for the idea. However, I'd prefer a solution that works with
> the native cmd-Shell too. Otherwise, I'd assume that CygWin is
> installed.

Since you want a solution that works in either environment, in what
language are you going to implement your script?  You can do something
very similar in Perl and other such languages, but I can't think of a
single method that would work in both bash and cmd without at least some
syntax tweaks.

-Jeremy

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