521356 - Please give svn a common folder name (without version numbers)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Description

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

In upgrading from MozillaBuild 1.3 to 1.4, I forgot to update the PATH argument for svn inside MozillaBuild.  1.3 used svn 1.4.2, and 1.4 uses svn 1.6.3.

Specifically, the latter directory is c:\mozilla-build\svn-win32-1.6.3\ .

Could we feasibly remove the -win32-1.6.3 part from the directory name?  The hg tool doesn't have a version number in its directory name.

(I note several other packages also include version numbers in their directory names as well.)

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Why does it matter? MozillaBuild puts them all in $PATH for you. I don't understand what you mean by "update the PATH argument". /etc/profile-extrapaths.sh makes those settings for you.

As for why it gets installed in that directory, it's because that's where it unzips to, and I didn't see any reason to change that:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-build/file/81d2e3866fb8/packageit.sh#l37
(Hg is installed from an installer, so we have to explicitly specify the install dir.)

Comment 2

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

I have no plans to update svn again during the 1.x timeframe, and in the future msys2-based world, svn will be part of MSYS rather than a separate package. Nothing to see here, move along.