problems with venus on windows

[Steven M. Ottens]

I'm happy to test it, so please inform me when and where I can get  
the files to test.

Steven

On Mar 10, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Sam Ruby wrote:

> James Holderness wrote:
>> Steven M. Ottens wrote:
>>> If someone has a tip how to use it with spaces, I'd appreciate it,
>>> otherwise I'll rewrite apache-conf to point to the current-working
>>> directory.
>> I've had Venus running on Windows in a path with spaces. What I  
>> did was use the 8.3 compatibility filenames everywhere in  
>> config.ini. For example, if you need to refer to a path at  
>> \program files\venus you'd use path /progra~1/venus. Also before  
>> running planet.py, I'd do "cd \progra~1\venus" which ensured that  
>> my current directory was also space free. I think that was all  
>> there was to it.
>
> It looks like there is a function that can be used to help:
>
> http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread37596.html
>
> One solution would be to have various places in the code check for  
> a space in the path/file name, and if GetShortPathName returns a  
> value for that name, and if so, use that instead.
>
> Another would be to track down the various places where a space  
> causes a problem, and fix that.
>
> I have no problem with either approach, and would be willing to  
> make the necessary changes, but I don't use Windows enough to be  
> confident that I will catch all such places, so having a few  
> volunteer testers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> - Sam Ruby
>