Re: [PATCH v2] mergetools: add winmerge as a builtin tool

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 13, 2015, 15:22 UTC
Message-ID: <3d7e3b09b89c46c39befca7564f5c1d6@www.dscho.org>
In-Reply-To: <55534F4E.60402@gmail.com>

Hi,

On 2015-05-13 15:19, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

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> On 13.05.2015 04:00, David Aguilar wrote:
> 
>> +	if test -n "$ProgramW6432" && test -x "$ProgramW6432/$winmerge_exe"
>> +	then
>> +		printf '%s' "$ProgramW6432/$winmerge_exe"
> 
> I don't think it makes sense to check "$ProgramW6432". The content of
> that variable depends on the bitness of the process requesting the
> environment. Just checking "$PROGRAMFILES" and "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)"
> should be sufficient and more clear.

In my tests, "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)" did *not* work:

    $ echo "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)"
    bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

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> Also, note that you should use all upper case names when referring to
> Windows environment variables. While it's true that on plain Windows
> environment variable names are case-insensitive, MSYS1/2 converts all
> variable names to upper case and *is* case sensitive. I.e. while "echo
> $PROGRAMFILES" works as expected from a Git Bash on Windows, "echo
> $ProgramFiles" results in an empty string.

Exactly. In my tests, "$ProgramW6432" worked, while "$PROGRAMW6432" did not.

FWIW I think that the idea to test for a WinMerge executable of another bitness makes sense, because we can execute an executable of another bitness (unlike a .dll of another bitness).

Ciao, Johannes