2009/9/5 Dmitriy Sintsov questpc@rambler.ru:
- Marco Schuster marco@harddisk.is-a-geek.org [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.