Duncan Murdoch <murdoch <at> stats.uwo.ca> writes: : : On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:11:15 +0000 (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck : <ggrothendieck <at> myway.com> wrote: : : >Renaming is not really workable if you are giving your scripts to others. : >They won't want build scripts that rename their folders. : > : >: Another possibility is to have your build script split up the name and : >: apply a custom sort order to it. : >: : >: The pattern is: : >: : >: "rw" + version number + suffix : >: : >: The suffices appear in this order: "dev", "alpha", "beta", "", "pat" : >: (where not all appear, e.g. "dev" never appears for a minor release, : >: and sometimes "alpha" is skipped). : > : >Its really desirable to keep Windows batch scripts as simple as : >possible and such a transformation is trickier than you might : >think in the Windows batch language. : : You need a better scripting language!
Quite so but unfortunately if I want to produce a script that has no dependencies then I need to use what is provided in Windows and Windows batch commands seem to be the best way to do that. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel