[darcs-users] darcs patch: Use System.Directory.getTemporaryDirecto... (and 3 more)

[David Roundy]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:53:17PM +0000, E.Y.Kow at brighton.ac.uk wrote:
> Note: I think the pipeDoc patch makes tests fail.  But maybe somebody would be
> willing to fix it.  I just dumbly copy-and-pasted the code from execDocPipe

Hmmm.  It looks good to me, and if it doesn't break tests for me, I'll push
it.

> Fri May  9 15:30:35 BST 2008  Eric Kow <E.Y.Kow at brighton.ac.uk>
>   * Use System.Directory.getTemporaryDirectory to determine tmp location.
>   
>   This is more portable.  For instance, it understands Windows's
>   conventions.
> 
> Fri May  9 15:56:36 BST 2008  Eric Kow <E.Y.Kow at brighton.ac.uk>
>   * Create temporary files with openBinaryTempFile.
>   Remove some mkstemp-related code which is no longer used.
> 
> Fri May  9 16:34:06 BST 2008  Eric Kow <E.Y.Kow at brighton.ac.uk>
>   * Create temporary files in the current directory.
>   We don't know how openBinaryTempFile behaves with an empty string
>   as the directory.
> 
> Fri May  9 16:51:44 BST 2008  Eric Kow <E.Y.Kow at brighton.ac.uk>
>   * Pipe documents directly to the external program.
>   Do not create a temporary file.