On 10/17/2014 08:29 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
- 1/ Replace all custom shell tooling (sed/grep/gawk/perl horrors) and consolidate on either native (C/C++) code (see e.g. concat-deps) or _one_ and only one consolidated solution beyond that, likely Python3 (as we are bundling that and it is a good crossplatform superset of the POSIX shell-world). Bootstrapping on Windows would then likely be: Install native Python3, execute Python script that sets up the rest.rationale: As we already use a native GNU make on Windows, with this we could remove our dependency on cygwin as Python3 is available natively on Windows (and all other platforms).
...if we also successfully abstract over the differences between GNU/cygwin and Windows of all those "very little tools" called from make recipes (like moving a file).
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