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  • Committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager
  • Date: 2007-04-12 09:32:42 UTC
  • mfrom: (2405.2.2 HACKING-portability)
  • Revision ID: pqm@pqm.ubuntu.com-20070412093242-8r2pilxsjtxs46dj
(Andrew Bennetts) Add a brief Portability section to HACKING, build HACKING.htm from 'make docs'.

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valid characters are generated where possible.
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Portability Tips
 
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The ``bzrlib.osutils`` module has many useful helper functions, including
 
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some more portable variants of functions in the standard library.
 
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In particular, don't use ``shutil.rmtree`` unless it's acceptable for it
 
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to fail on Windows if some files are readonly or still open elsewhere.
 
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Use ``bzrlib.osutils.rmtree`` instead.
 
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Merge/review process
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