On 6 March 2018 at 09:06, Niels Müller Larsen <> wrote:
> Sorry to intrude.
> The cross platform comment on bash triggered me.
> My students use a bash shell on Windows. It is included, I think, in the git download for Windows.
>
> /Niels
Yes, though I do wonder how many of todays Windows users would be
comfortable working
with a bash script Niels? CS students yes, others, I'm less sure.
<grin/> It was probably quite a while since Norm used Windows!
regards Dave
>
> Greetings
> Niels Müller Larsen
> Senior Lecturer IBA Kolding
> Bachelor of Web Development Program
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>
>
>> On 5 Mar 2018, at 17.54, Norman Walsh <> wrote:
>>
>> Dave Pawson <> writes:
>>> I stopped at "you don't have to understand it" Norm?
>>> ... rude words.
>>
>> Apologies. No disrespect intended.
>>
>>> I got as far as ant for builds. I can understand most of that.
>>> Bash script... similar? Maybe
>>> gradle? Wozzat.
>>>
>>> Why make it deeper than needs be?
>>
>> Well…I’m not sure I agree that it’s deeper than it needs to be.
>> I’ve been building toolchains for ages: make, ant, bash, perl,
>> ruby, python, sbt, etc. etc. etc.
>>
>> I settled on Gradle because of the advantages I outlined in that
>> posting: it’s significantly better than ant for dealing with Maven and
>> for extensibility; it’s cross platform (unlike bash); it’s relatively
>> easy to install on most platforms (unlike make, perl, etc.); and it
>> transparently deals with a whole lot of the backend infrastructure.
>>
>> Be seeing you,
>> norm
>>
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>> http://nwalsh.com/ | pointless ones.--Jacques Chardonne
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