[Monotone-devel] Re: [PATCH] New lua command execute_redirout which executes an os command and captures standard output

[Graydon Hoare]

Timothy Brownawell wrote:

> Won't these be somewhat non-portable, such as to windows? I thought
> monotone proper (as opposed to, say, extensions you can put in
> monotonerc) was supposed to be the same on all platforms, are we
> loosening that?

I don't think I've ever really stated much of a strong opinion on the 
matter; maybe other folks have, of I have and forgot :) I currently feel 
... well, if not "happy" then at least "resigned" if the differences 
between platforms are inessential, discoverable, obvious, well 
documented, etc. I wouldn't personally insist on there being "no 
observable differences".

For example, large files don't work on some systems, long filenames and 
case-sensitivity don't work on others, various UTF-8 filenames will 
collide when externalized to the filesystem codepage on others, execute 
bits and file owners don't work on others. I don't really mind adding 
symlinks to that list if the system fails reasonably softly in their 
absence.

-graydon