on 8/24/2000 12:58 PM, "Didier Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +1 for Perl. It IS portable as far as no cirtical system access is
> required. This perfectly fit our needs for Torque. Pattern is far easy
> using perl.
> Drawback: installing Perl. (at least for Windows and Mac users)
>
> -1 for shells, since shell scripts cannot do anything but calling
> applications. And usually those applications are not portable. (or you
> have to install them)
>
> Example: removing a file:
> shell on unix: rm filename
> shell on windows: del filename
> Perl (anywhere): unlink filename;
>
> BTW: .bat files are not portable.
>
>
>
> Other Solution:
> Using Java and Ant. But I do not know Ant enough to know if it could fit
> our needs.
No. our current solution is to have one .bat and one .sh script. I don't
think that is a problem considering all that we are doing is building up a
classpath and executing the JVM in most cases.
-jon
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