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List:       kde-windows
Subject:    Re: KShell & KMacroExpander - are we screwed?
From:       Marcel Partap <mpartap () gmx ! net>
Date:       2007-10-14 14:19:19
Message-ID: 47122567.8050504 () gmx ! net
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hi,
> Dunno what the problem really is (don't have time atm to read fully),
> but imposing a posix shell to win32 people is a no-go, IMHO. Especially
> not for end-users.
I know _noone_ computer illiterate who even KNEW the win command prompt before I \
opened it. Besides it's mostly completely useless anyways. Anyone seriously using it \
(admins f.e. messing around with services) should be able to make the transition to a \
proper, working POSIX shell. There might be folks though that wanna stick to Vistas \
monad stuff..

> Apart from that we'd have to install that as part of
> KDE because a posix shell is not something joe average has installed.
well libpng and and others are deps aswell... so one more

for having a BASH on windows there's either the CYGWIN way \
(http://folk.uio.no/andreass/unix_tools.html contains utility binaries ready to be \
dumped into path) or the totally GNU way @ http://winbash.tigris.org/...
> This project's purpose is to create a native win32 version of GNU bash without \
> requiring the cygwin DLLs. There is a (mostly) functional 1.14.7 version available. \
> It currently doesn't work well with subprocesses, redirection and signals, but most \
> of the normal shell features are available.
well that needs further testing I guess..
btw short question: what's the status of Holgers emerge script? I would like to start \
on kde/wine debugging and this stuff really needs to kinda build itself for me to \
consider investing time in it.. regards marcel
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