+1 for removing @. Nandika
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Dumindu Pallewela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to have all the "@" sings (which hides the actual dos command > that is run) infront of each line of win32 build removed, except when > it is absolutely necessary. There are two main reasons for this: > > 1. If there is something wrong with our build process, it is really > hard to spot where the error is. we have to go through many batch > scripts to locate the error. Rather if it all the "@"s were dropped, > you can easily spot where things went wrong. > 2. An even disturbing situation is when the cl.exe and link.exe are > prefixed with an "@". Users have no information about the flags used > in building, if they do not go through the makefiles. If there is an > issue in the arguements provided to cl.exe or link.exe, again, hiding > information only results in increasing the time wasted on finding > those mistakes. > > Ather way would be to define a %AT% var in init.bat allowing one to > set it to "@" if they prefer. But having an %AT% prefixing all the > commands would make the batch files look quite ugly :). > > Thoughts? > > Regards, > Dumindu. > > -- > Dumindu Pallewela > http://blog.dumindu.com > GPG ID: 0x9E131672 > > WSO2 | "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform" | http://wso2.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://nandikajayawardana.blogspot.com/ WSO2 Inc: http://www.wso2.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
