Jason House schrieb: > Walter Bright Wrote: > >> Frank Benoit wrote: >>> DMD 1.041 on windows does support response files, that is a file >>> containing arguments. >>> On Linux dmd does not understand that. >> The windows response files date back to the problem DOS/Windows had with >> only a very short command line length was allowed. So the arguments were >> put into a file instead. >> >> It's probably a good idea to do it for Linux, too. > > Ick. Why? Command files are hacks for Window's shortcomings. Why spread such > hacks across all platforms? The linux command line is already well adapted to > handle this kind of thing.
Because, imagine you set up a build process for your application. Why should i have to care about that difference in my 'makefile', 'rakefile', ... whatever ?
