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Sep 5, 2009, 2:18 PM
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Version control on Windows (was Wikipedia iPhone app official page?)
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2009/9/5 Dmitriy Sintsov <questpc [at] rambler>:
> * Marco Schuster <marco [at] harddisk> [Sat, 5 Sep 2009
>> If Windows had a decent command line / shell (has its suckyness
> improved
>> for
>> Win7?), I bet that TortoiseSVN had far less downloads... it simply is
>> the
>> only way to make SVN usable on Windows.
> Old Windows Shell will be replaced by this one:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
> But I've read long time ago that usability of Windows Shells is limited
> not just because the syntax is weak, but, what's more important, process
> startup delay is much longer than in Linux, thus, calling of lots of
> external console programs to perform complex actions would be much
> slower at the same machine. My own scripts (eg mediawiki video sitemap
> generator seem to prove that)
Yes. Cygwin has the same problem: it can take *ages* for a process to
be forked from the command line. Running ./configure on software in
Cygwin is *way* slower than on Linux. Creating processes on Windows is
a heavyweight thing however you do it, it appears.
- d.
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