working with paths on Windows is a huge pain, and my attempts to wrap my head around PowerShell were futile.
Windows understands forward-slashes - using those consistently saves a lot of trouble. Just avoid naïve path handling code (use libraries that abstract over platform differences instead), and check that external tools give you consistent paths (not in backslash form). If you have to depend on someone else's naïve path handling code, do not use paths that include spaces. About the first things I install on a new Windows machine are Vim and Mingw/Msys, which gives you most of a sane editor and shell environment, as well as other unixy development and compilation tools. Msys Git provides enough of a shell environment to use git, so you might not need a separate install of Mingw/Msys. Doing your commandline scripts in node, rather than bash or bat, side-steps many issues, though some remain (eg, #3479/#3584). Hth, Claus -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
