[ moin-Patches-875444 ] PageEditor _make_backup fails on Win32

Patches item #875444, was opened at 2004-01-12 16:43
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Thomas Kläger (tomy)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: PageEditor _make_backup fails on Win32

Initial Comment:
Using MoinMoin on Win32:

While editing a page, if you preview your changes and 
then additionally try the spell checker you get an 
"OSError: [Errno 17] File exists".

The problem is that on win32 os.rename does not 
overwrite a file if it already exists.

To attached patch corrects this by removing the old file 
on win32 before renaming.

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>Comment By: Thomas Waldmann (thomaswaldmann)
Date: 2004-03-27 15:49

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I would like to have a TESTED patch that:
 * fixes ALL places were os.rename is used
 * replaces those calls with a call to
MoinMoin.util.filesys.rename that handles platform specific
stuff as good as possible (and just calls os.rename for
every non-broken OS)

The patch should be based on latest 1.2.x release or 1.3
devel version.

As I can't test it, I can't fix it.


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Comment By: Johannes Berg (johill)
Date: 2004-03-10 14:30

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On Windows NT the python function could use MoveFileEx with some flags to get overwrite behaviour, this is not supported on 9x/ME though.

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