On 15 July 2013 18:11, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > The real problem is not technical, actually - it's knowing what Windows > users will actually be comfortable with. Unix users tend to assume Windows > users are very uncomfortable on the command line (no offence meant to anyone > by that) whereas the reality is that some are, some (like me...) really are > not, and some are simply unfamiliar with the capabilities of the Windows > command line through lack of need to use it (many of my colleagues, for > example).
There's another significant group of users including myself who use the command line extensively but infect every Windows machine they touch with unixy tools. I use Console2 as my terminal GUI and git-bash (msys bash) as the shell. I don't really get on with it but a lot of other people use Cygwin for similar reasons. One consequence of this setup is that git-bash considers any file with a shebang to be executable and also .exe files but not .bat files. I commonly write a python script with a shebang (and no .py extension) and place a bat file with the same name next to it if, for example, I need to invoke it from something that doesn't understand my unixy setup (e.g. os.system). PATHEXT wouldn't solve the problem for me since the .py extension would still be there when I invoke the script from git-bash. > I'm actually tempted to give up trying to please everyone, and just put > together a solution that suits *me* and see how that flies. Second guessing > what other people want makes my head hurt :-) That's probably a good strategy :) Oscar _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
