[CMake] Re: a ./configure shell script stub (William A. Hoffman)

[Brandon J. Van Every]

James Mansion wrote:
>> For those that run Windows (and don't have the unixtools installed) the 
>> preferred interface is a GUI anyway.
>>     
>
> I don't think that's a good assumption.  Windows has a command interpreter
> (and in my experience people erroneously believe CMD.EXE is as limited as
> COMMAND.COM without having looked at recent enhancements) plus the WSH
> stuff which works well enough too.
>
> Its quite handy to drive things from timmed commands or remotely via
> a web or RPC interface.
>   

Well, I use MSYS.  Me no speaka CMD.EXE.  For many years, there was no 
point as generally one needed one's .bat files to run everywhere.  Maybe 
now command.com is finally at death's door?  Still, I'm having a hard 
time believing there's any "command line culture" on Windows.  It may 
not be a strictly correct assumption, but I'd wager that 99% of 
Windozian programmers don't do any CMD.EXE scripting.  Compare that to 
Unix where almost everyone knows some shell scripting.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every

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