Re: [PATCH] Fix decompose-directory and change drives before attempting to build eggs on Windows

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 08:27:30AM +1300, Evan Hanson wrote:
> On 2019-11-11 13:57, Lassi Kortela wrote:
> > > > The fix is to first switch drives, then run cd.
> > 
> > `cd /d c:\foo` can be used to switch the drive and the directory both in one
> > command.
> 
> Oh, that's good to know, thanks Lassi.

Good tip indeed, thanks Lassi!

> Peter, do you think it's worth switching to use this flag instead? There
> will be a special case for Windows either way, but one approach might be
> simpler.

I actually prefer it the "cd /d" way, because then we can't accidentally
forget to introduce this elsewhere: we can just call cd-command and it
will work on Windows if it works on UNIX.  The code will be shorter as
well.  So let's make a new patch.

Cheers,
Peter

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