Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 89149 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2000 20:19:44 -0000 Received: from mercury.sun.com (192.9.25.1) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 26 Feb 2000 20:19:44 -0000 Received: from shorter.eng.sun.com ([129.144.252.35]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA11307 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:19:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ionic (d-ucup02-124-65 [129.144.124.65]) by shorter.eng.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v1.7) with SMTP id MAA29911 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:19:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <008601bf8096$f8bae1b0$417c9081@ionic> From: "James Duncan Davidson" To: References: <2470390.3160427020@turtle.coral.cs.cmu.edu> <01e201bf7fe7$53dd7ae0$417c9081@ionic> <008201bf7fff$e39e8cb0$364211ac@SUCCUBUS> Subject: Re: Using bash scripts on Windows Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:20:48 -0800 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 > I use bash on all windows platforms rather than the cmd shell. The only > problem > I ever have is java classpaths defined using ':' as the separater. Its a > simple change > to accomdate use of the ';' separater for the bash/NT situation. Below is a > modified bootstrap.sh that works with bash under unix and NT. Is it > worthwhile > to add this to the distribution? I used to use bash, then ksh on my windoze machines. But finally I got tired of fighting all teh sort of imcompatibilities involved. Anyway, I'm ok with this going into a contrib type area, but I think that we need to keep the number of entry points in the main distrubution to a minimum, esp since most windows users are using plain ol cmd.exe .duncan