quasi-final

venv/bin/activate

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # This file must be used with "source bin/activate" *from bash*
-# you cannot run it directly
+# You cannot run it directly
 
 deactivate () {
     # reset old environment variables
@@ -14,12 +14,9 @@ deactivate () {
         unset _OLD_VIRTUAL_PYTHONHOME
     fi
 
-    # This should detect bash and zsh, which have a hash command that must
-    # be called to get it to forget past commands.  Without forgetting
+    # Call hash to forget past commands. Without forgetting
     # past commands the $PATH changes we made may not be respected
-    if [ -n "${BASH:-}" -o -n "${ZSH_VERSION:-}" ] ; then
-        hash -r 2> /dev/null
-    fi
+    hash -r 2> /dev/null
 
     if [ -n "${_OLD_VIRTUAL_PS1:-}" ] ; then
         PS1="${_OLD_VIRTUAL_PS1:-}"
@@ -38,8 +35,15 @@ deactivate () {
 # unset irrelevant variables
 deactivate nondestructive
 
-VIRTUAL_ENV=/home/adelorenzo/repos/talk2me/venv
-export VIRTUAL_ENV
+# on Windows, a path can contain colons and backslashes and has to be converted:
+if [ "${OSTYPE:-}" = "cygwin" ] || [ "${OSTYPE:-}" = "msys" ] ; then
+    # transform D:\path\to\venv to /d/path/to/venv on MSYS
+    # and to /cygdrive/d/path/to/venv on Cygwin
+    export VIRTUAL_ENV=$(cygpath /home/adelorenzo/repos/talk2me/venv)
+else
+    # use the path as-is
+    export VIRTUAL_ENV=/home/adelorenzo/repos/talk2me/venv
+fi
 
 _OLD_VIRTUAL_PATH="$PATH"
 PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/"bin":$PATH"
@@ -61,9 +65,6 @@ if [ -z "${VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT:-}" ] ; then
     export VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT
 fi
 
-# This should detect bash and zsh, which have a hash command that must
-# be called to get it to forget past commands.  Without forgetting
+# Call hash to forget past commands. Without forgetting
 # past commands the $PATH changes we made may not be respected
-if [ -n "${BASH:-}" -o -n "${ZSH_VERSION:-}" ] ; then
-    hash -r 2> /dev/null
-fi
+hash -r 2> /dev/null