Re: Emacs vista build failures

[David Kastrup]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>>> Can you imagine how many mandays get wasted on utterly appalling
>>>> workarounds like that?  And of course, this just works on one version of
>>>> cmd.exe, and might break on another.
>>> Why don't you use perl for example instead?
>>
>> Chicken and egg.  Installation scripts have to rely on what is there.
>
> But you can build exectutable from perl scripts, or is not that
> possibility there any more?

It means pulling in a lot of external technology for just a simple
scripting job.  Why should we do that if what is present in Windows is
so great?

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David Kastrup