[osgeo4w-dev] Q about sip package

[Matt Wilkie]

>> 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.

ahh, thanks. I've added that note to 
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/PackagingInstructions#textreplaceandpython

-matt