On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:23:25 UTC, Manu wrote:
On 28 September 2015 at 09:51, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On 9/27/2015 12:54 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
They simply don't recognise its existence. It's a piece of
antiquated detritus, only used by strange people who wear
woolen shirts pretending to be *nix users while using windows
;)
?? Visual Studio sets all these environment variables, in
addition to the usual blizzard set by Microsoft Windows and
other Microsoft programs:
[...]
Huh? We're talking about the environment dialog box right... or
so I though?
Maybe you're objecting with the suggestion that normal users
really do
actively use environment variables? If so, your example refers
to
auto-configured stuff that's completely invisible to average
users, as
it should be in windows.
I've never used the VS command prompt in almost 20 years. Not
once.
It's only linux ports that require you to mess with the
environment in
windows. MS would never require that of a user.
The alternative view is that MS messed it up so bad that it
became nearly impossible to use manually, so they gave up and
just wrote complicated automation to deal with it, making 3rd
party development harder than it should be. Of course, it doesn't
really matter why; it is what it is.
That said, I hate environment variables anywhere.
