From: Brian Warner <warner@allmydata.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 00:10:42 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: make-version.py: accomodate windows by ignoring the junk that appears at the start... 
X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-0.3.0~82
X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/architecture.txt?a=commitdiff_plain;h=985925d70cca8f92b0f46707f2fba37f3e587a57;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git

make-version.py: accomodate windows by ignoring the junk that appears at the start of 'darcs changes'
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diff --git a/misc/make-version.py b/misc/make-version.py
index 466240e0..a4f68164 100644
--- a/misc/make-version.py
+++ b/misc/make-version.py
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ def update():
         print "so I'm leaving version.py alone"
         return 0
 
+    # windows' weird ssh process prepends some 'plink: unknown option "-O"'
+    # junk to the beginning of the otput. To overcome this, manually scan for
+    # the opening <changelog> tag before giving anything to the xml parser.
+
+    output = output[output.find("<changelog>"):]
+
     try:
         doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(output)
     except xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: