Werner Smekal wrote: > I think this won't be the only command you will not find, e.g. sed is > later used on, and there is no windows command I know of, that has > this functionality. I use the very well ported GNUWin32 tools: > > http://GNUWin32.sf.net > > It has all the GNU Tools you need: core-utils, sed, grep, whatever > (except bash though :( ). Actually I was succesful in running the sh > files on my Windows box with win-bash and GNUWin32 Tools without too > much problems, e.g. running "ctest" in the build directory actually > run all scripts (but not all correct). > > But does it make sense to change sh-files to use windows commands, > instead of writing windows batch files? Might be the same work? > Especially if you try to get around sed :).
*ugly word elided* I forgot that bit - Windows batch files together with the native tools are very limited in this respect. But perhaps that is where a Jim script can help :). We would emulate sed for the Windows platform using Jim. The advantages: - We keep the shell scripts mostly as they are (with perhaps a few parametrisations, using $cat instead of cat and $sed instead of sed) - The Jim scripts would only be necessary on Windows - No need to get all GNU tools, we can just do with win-bash. The disadvantages: - The introduction of new scripts, however limited On the other hand, if the GNU tools are easy to install and use, for the moment at least that will suffice. BUT: I do want to prevent us requiring Windows users to download and install all manner of tools before they can get started. The installation instructions for PLplot should ideally fit in 10 lines of text, each no longer than 80 characters. (I have seen reams of documentation on how to install various software packages, and I tend to get very very depressed by them! And I think I am typical enough in that respect ;)) Regards, Arjen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
