Jeremy Lee wrote:

> Let's not even get into the issues with trying to build multi-target
> projects on windows, without a decent makefile. Compile farms?
> Version control? Unit and regression testing with .bat files? Don't
> make me laugh. And even if you manage it, your environment will be so
> non-standard as to make it nearly impossible to share your work.

I don't quite understand this. I'm using makefiles and version control
under Windows for quite a while, with tools that work the same on Linux
and on Windows. Not sure about compile farms, but my hunch is that it's
about the same. And I don't see why regression testing should be more
complicated or less standard on Windows than it is on Linux. Most of the
time such perceived differences are more due to different degrees of
familiarity, or sometimes a specific choice of tools that puts one in a
corner.

FWIW, the fact that you're (still) talking about .bat files (which
mostly continue to exist for backwards compatibility with -- here it
comes -- MS-DOS :) might suggest that more than a decade in Windows
shell development went by you without leaving a trace. cmd.exe is not
bash, but IME it can do much more than most of its bashers seem to know.

Gerhard
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