BUG: rdmd cmd line argument bug

[Walter Bright]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> It doesn't know. The mingw shell is buggy. It doesn't follow Windows 
>> conventions, and so screws up programs that do. I've gotten numerous 
>> mysterious bug reports over the years that eventually got traced back 
>> to the mingw shell. Stop using it, and the problems disappear <g>.
> What "Windows conventions" it doesn't follow?

Beats me. I just find that, over and over, when people stop using the 
mingw shell for Windows programs their problems go away.

>  >  Stop using it, and the problems disappear <g>.
> Not something I am in any way willing to do.

Trying to turn Windows into unix is never going to work right.

> And by the way, how about folding rdmd's functionality into dmd itself? 
> It shouldn't take too long. :)

That'll happen eventually.