[osgeo4w-dev] Q about sip package

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Matt,

On Tue, 09. Mar 2010 at 15:10:45 -0800, Matt Wilkie wrote:
> Does anyone know what the purpose of the following line in  
> `etc/postinstall/sip.bat`? It replaces a single backslash with a double,  
> so 'C:\OSGeo4W' becomes 'C:\\OSGeo4W'.
>
>     set OSGEO4W_ROOT=%OSGEO4W_ROOT:\=\\%

so that textreplace uses double backslashes in sipconfig.py.


Jürgen

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