Re: MinGW binary installer available

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 8, 2007, 21:18 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702082216000.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200702082215.50389.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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> torsdag 08 februari 2007 09:09 skrev Johannes Sixt:
> > 
> > @echo off
> > rem () { :; } ; : \
> > sh %0 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
> > rem ; : \
> > exit /B %ERRORLEVEL%
> > 
> > 
> > in place of the usual "#!/bin/sh". It requires you to have a command
> > named @echo.exe in the path that is a noop. Also, it is limited to 9
> > command line arguments.
> > 
> > What a hack! (*)
> 
> Yes... I suggest you use %* to pass on all arguments. It works with more 
> than 10 arguemtns, including quoted arguemnts (presumably whatever limit 
> windows has)

... but probably breaks down on Windows 98, and maybe on ME, too, and just maybe on XP pre-SP1 with full moon, unless you end the life of a black goat before trying that.

Frankly, I'd rather stay away from such hackeries. For now, we can ship bash, perl and Tcl/Tk with Git, as well as git-gui, can't we? After all, Windows users are used to bloatware. Then, we just hide the command line from them!

Ciao, Dscho