2009/9/5 Dmitriy Sintsov <[email protected]>: > * Marco Schuster <[email protected]> [Sat, 5 Sep 2009
>> If Windows had a decent command line / shell (has its suckyness > improved >> for >> Win7?), I bet that TortoiseSVN had far less downloads... it simply is >> the >> only way to make SVN usable on Windows. > Old Windows Shell will be replaced by this one: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell > But I've read long time ago that usability of Windows Shells is limited > not just because the syntax is weak, but, what's more important, process > startup delay is much longer than in Linux, thus, calling of lots of > external console programs to perform complex actions would be much > slower at the same machine. My own scripts (eg mediawiki video sitemap > generator seem to prove that) Yes. Cygwin has the same problem: it can take *ages* for a process to be forked from the command line. Running ./configure on software in Cygwin is *way* slower than on Linux. Creating processes on Windows is a heavyweight thing however you do it, it appears. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
