On 27-Jul-12 12:48, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> wrote:
On Jul 27, 2012, at 08:54 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen <[email protected]>
wrote:
Since always? I mean, nobody actually uses cmd.exe on Windows, do they?
First, shell scripts are not portable. You have to be very careful which
language constructs you choose to use. It's very easy you suddenly use a
language construct that is an extension only available in a particular
shell.
Then I think you mean those extensions aren't portable. :)
Also, the script is written for zsh which is fully compatible with
bash, which is available practically everywhere.
Nope. But say D script would indeed run on all interesting platforms.
It's literally the only platform without a shell installed by default,
and even then, getting a shell via MinGW or Cygwin is trivial.
I don't agree. I wouldn't want to ask my users of an application/tool to
have to install MinGW or Cygwin. Preferably the shouldn't have to install
anything. That basically means native code.
This is a script for use by developers, not by end users. Can you
honestly develop on Windows without MinGW/Cygwin
I can and in fact do. Personally, I find shell scripts durty &
unreliable. Quick & dirty is the first thing that comes to mind when I
think shell scrip. Yeah you may use them to do `this thing` on *NIX,
but proposing them as portable tool - just meh.
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Dmitry Olshansky
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