From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dave Korn" Subject: RE: Switching from CVS to GIT Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:59:35 +0100 Message-ID: <023101c80eb5$e3b6b310$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> References: <1192293466.17584.95.camel@homebase.localnet><1192381040.4908.57.camel@homebase.localnet><1773C6F0-87BE-4F3C-B68A-171E1F32E242@lrde.epita.fr><47125F74.9050600@op5.se><47126957.1020204@op5.se> <20071014221446.GC2776@steel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 'Andreas Ericsson' , 'Make Windows' , 'git list' To: "'Alex Riesen'" , "'Johannes Schindelin'" X-From: make-w32-bounces+gnu-make-w32=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 15 00:59:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-make-w32@m.gmane.org Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IhCR5-0002iI-3x for gnu-make-w32@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:59:51 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhCQy-0002x6-Et for gnu-make-w32@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:59:44 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhCQt-0002wP-Sa for make-w32@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:59:39 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhCQs-0002w9-4G for make-w32@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:59:39 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhCQr-0002w6-VA for make-w32@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:59:37 -0400 Received: from mail.artimi.com ([194.72.81.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IhCQr-0007i7-Hr for make-w32@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:59:37 -0400 Received: from rainbow ([192.168.8.46]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:59:35 +0100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20071014221446.GC2776@steel.home> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 Thread-Index: AcgOs4fHch/7bR+URh6XAXw0UYKR0AAAadQg X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Oct 2007 22:59:35.0261 (UTC) FILETIME=[E3BAF8D0:01C80EB5] X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1+ X-BeenThere: make-w32@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of Windows-specific issues with GNU make List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: make-w32-bounces+gnu-make-w32=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: make-w32-bounces+gnu-make-w32=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Archived-At: On 14 October 2007 23:15, Alex Riesen wrote: > Interprocess communication: > > - no reliable text environment (I'm programming in the damn thing for > 10 years and I still don't know how to pass an environment variable > _for_sure_) > > - it has only one argument (limited in size) passed to started > programs, which means that there is no possible way to safely pass > file and text arguments on command line (more than one, that is) Whuh? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y5zz48s1(VS.80).aspx cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....